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Imperial College London | Professor Alun Hughes

More than 750,000 people in the UK live with heart failure. Heart failure cannot be cured, but medication can help control symptoms. By finding a non-invasive way to assess heart function, people with heart failure will be identified more r...

Proteins found in tick saliva could be used to treat a dangerous type of heart disease which can cause sudden cardiac death in young adults.

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Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is when the left side of your heart does not develop properly. Find out the symptoms, how it's diagnosed and what treatments are available including types of surgery.

The CONDI-2/ERIC-PPCI trial, part funded by the BHF, tested whether a blood pressure cuff on the arm could help protect the heart after a heart attack.

What is an idiopathic heart condition? We ask Chloe MacArthur, Senior Nurse at the British Heart Foundation to explain.

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University of Bristol | Professor Alastair Poole

Professor Alastair Poole and his team at the University of Bristol are investigating cells in the blood called platelets, which may help repair the heart after a heart attack. Platelets are important in blood clotting, which protects the...

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University of St Andrews | Dr Samantha Pitt

Dr Samantha Pitt from the University of St Andrew’s is studying how calcium is released from heart cells to maintain a regular heartbeat, and what goes wrong in heart failure. In healthy people, controlled calcium release causes the heart t...