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Our senior Dietitian talks about whether we should be drinking red wine for its heart health benefits.

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University College London | Dr Vivek Muthurangu

A technique called cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is widely used as the best method of scanning children people with heart disease. However, current CMR techniques require people to hold their breath, which children often find diff...

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Swansea University | Professor Christopher George

BHF Professor Alan Williams studies abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias, which can be fatal. Although we understand some of the processes involved in arrhythmias, the efficacy of current treatments are variable, and the causes of abnorma...

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University of Cambridge | Dr Sanjay Sinha

Many people who have a heart attack go on to develop heart failure, a condition where the heart cannot pump blood around the body efficiently, due to damage to the heart muscle. Unlike some fish or amphibians, humans are unable to regenerat...

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University of Nottingham | Professor John David Brook

Congenital heart disease is an abnormality of the heart which can be diagnosed whilst the baby is still in the womb, but is usually discovered at birth. It affects about 1 in every 180 new-borns, but thanks to advances in early diagnosis an...

Get our quick guide to why you might have heart valve replacement, what it involves and how long it will last.

Personalised treatments for strokes and heart disease is closer thanks to ongoing BHF research funding at the University of Reading.

We have responded to latest NHS England figures revealing dangerously long ambulance waiting times for heart attacks and strokes, and an ever-growing backlog of cardiac care.

A Royal Navy veteran who paid over £25,000 for heart surgery to avoid NHS delays is supporting our campaign to fix an “unprecedented crisis” in cardiovascular care.

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Imperial College London | Dr Zachary Whinnett

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) is a way of synchronising the heart beat in people with heart failure. It uses a type of pacemaker with leads that monitor the heart beat for irregularities and then send out tiny electrical pulses to...