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Pacemakers: 15 everyday things you can and cannot do with one

BNF Senior Cardiac Nurse Regina Gibb answers your key questions on living with a pacemaker including: cooking, mobile phones, smart watches, flying, driving, heart scans, sex and exercise.

Tobacco control

Smoking is still one of the leading preventable causes of ill health and mortality in the UK, with up to 20,000 deaths each year from heart and circulatory diseases linked to smoking tobacco.

Cardiac MRI scan

Find out why you'd have a cardiac MRI scan, what happens during the scan, when you'll get results and where to get support.

Discovering the causes of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an inherited disease of the heart muscle. BHF-funded research helped identify the faulty genes causing the conditions and we’ve helped make genetic testing available to the families affected.

Christmas pudding ice cream

In this recipe all the flavours of a traditional Christmas pudding are combined in a frozen yoghurt.

Fruit vs vegetables: which is healthiest?

Are vegetables better for us than fruit? BHF Senior Dietitian Victoria Taylor reveals the answer.

Helensburgh BHF Shop

Our charity shop sells second hand clothes, books, toys and homewares. You can donate bags of clothes and books. We also have charity voluntary roles available.

Woolwich BHF Shop

Our charity shop sells second hand clothes, books, toys and homewares. You can donate bags of clothes and books. We also have charity voluntary roles available.

Lytham BHF Shop

Our charity shop sells second hand clothes, books, toys and homewares. You can donate bags of clothes and books. We also have charity voluntary roles available.

Airdrie BHF Shop

Our charity shop sells second hand clothes, books, toys and homewares. You can donate bags of clothes and books. We also have charity voluntary roles available.

Bromley BHF Shop

Our charity shop sells second hand clothes, books, toys and homewares. You can donate bags of clothes and books. We also have charity voluntary roles available.

Lambley BHF Fundraising Group

Our Fundraising Groups and Branches are the face of the British Heart Foundation in their local communities.

To find out more, or to support British Heart Foundation’s work, please visit www.bhf.org.uk. You can speak to one of our cardiac nurses by calling our helpline on 0808 802 1234 (freephone), Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. For general customer service enquiries, please call 0300 330 3322, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

British Heart Foundation is a registered Charity No. 225971. Registered as a Company limited by guarantee in England & Wales No. 699547. Registered office at Greater London House, 180 Hampstead Road, London NW1 7AW. Registered as a Charity in Scotland No. SC039426