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Imperial College London | Professor Pieter de Tombe

Over half a million people in the UK have been diagnosed with heart failure, a condition where the heart lacks the power to meet the demands of the body. It’s a progressive condition that can cause debilitating symptoms of fluid build-up an...

Cold water swimming: what are the health benefits and what are the risks? Chloe MacArthur, Senior Cardiac Nurse at BHF, dives into the facts.

New draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended that more people can be considered for statins to reduce their risk of having a heart attack or stroke.

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University of Leeds | Professor Mark Kearney

Type 2 diabetes affects millions of people across the world and is a major cause of heart attacks and strokes. We urgently need to find new treatments to prevent heart and circulatory disease in people with diabetes, so we can improve the ...

Fundraising at work can be simple. Here's a few ideas how to get your colleagues involved and help us fund life saving heart research.

Latest NHS England figures reveal that the number of people on cardiac waiting lists grew to a record 337,706 at the end of July in England.

A new heart failure remote alert system for implanted heart devices has proven to dramatically reduce the number of hospitalisations and improve patient care with minimal staffing time, according to research we supported and presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona.

Latest NHS England figures published today show that the number of people on cardiac waiting lists fell to 406,695 at the end of October 2023 in England – a decrease of 2,846 on the previous month.

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King's College London | Dr Steven Niederer

Data scientists are developing ways to identify people who are vulnerable to heart side-effects from certain medicines. With every heartbeat, electricity travels across the heart and activates its muscle cells to contract. The chemical sig...