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Pacemakers are designed to regulate the heartbeat, but how much do you know about how they work? We take a look at the extraordinary technology involved.

Find out why carbs have a bad reputation and if it's true that they make you gain weight with BHF Senior Dietitian Tracy Parker.

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University of Cambridge | Dr Matthew Harper

Dr Matthew Harper is supervising a PhD student who will develop a new research model to study thrombosis (when blood clots form inside blood vessels) that is less reliant on animals. Heart attacks and strokes are caused by blood clots b...

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University of Bristol | Professor David Murphy

High blood pressure (hypertension) affects around one in three adults in England and Scotland and significantly increases a person’s risk of developing heart disease, heart failure and stroke. Scientists have struggled to pinpoint the exact...

Becky and Paul share their story about how they faced a diagnosis of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy together

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University of Manchester | Dr Adam Greenstein

High blood pressure (hypertension) and obesity are important causes of cardiovascular death. Furthermore, there is a relationship between these factors: as body weight increases, blood pressure rises. Until recently there has been no explan...

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King's College London | Professor Giovanni Mann

Supervised by Professor Giovanni Mann, a PhD student is working out if a compound in broccoli called sulforaphane could help to prevent or treat stroke. Professor Mann’s team has discovered that sulforaphane can protect small blood vessels...

Dr Robert Easton has been named the BHF's first Distinguished Fellow