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We take medicines every day ? but do you think about where they come from? Most modern drugs are created in the lab ? but these have bizarre origins.

The BHF gives its view on news stories claiming that plant-based food swaps can lower your risk of heart disease and diabetes.

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King's College London | Professor Jonathan Kentish

Professor Jonathan Kentish and his team at King’s College London are working out if switching on an enzyme called protein kinase D (PKD) could help the heart to pump blood around the body after heart failure. In some people who have had a...

Kate Blayney, Cardiac Rehabilitation Manager at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, answers common questions about sex and heart and circulatory disease.

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University of Cambridge | Professor Susan E Ozanne

In the UK more than half of women of child-bearing age are overweight or obese. Carrying too much weight during pregnancy comes with short and long-term health risks for both the woman and the child. The children of women who were overweigh...

The Leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, has today announced an ambition to reduce deaths from heart attack and stroke by 25 per cent over the next decade if his party is elected to Government.

A smart T-shirt with the power of AI could in future detect heart conditions as people go about their daily lives, thanks to research we're funding at Imperial College London.

Testosterone may be linked to the hardening of blood vessels associated with heart disease, shows research funded by the BHF and the BBSRC at the University of Edinburgh.

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University of Bristol | Professor Jules Hancox

Professor Jules Hancox and his colleagues at the University of Bristol are studying the causes of abnormal heart rhythms in Rett Syndrome, a condition caused by faults in a gene called MECP2. In Rett Syndrome, children initially thrive, but...