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University of Leeds | Dr Sarah C Calaghan

The ability of heart cells to sense stretching is essential for normal heart function, and allows the heart to pump more blood when it is needed, like during exercise. When cells are stretched too much and too often, the heart can change an...

A BHF-funded chemical engineer is perfecting a material to tackle heart valve disease. He tells Sarah Brealey how it could change patients' lives.

Today’s Budget paints a disappointing picture for both patients and charity-funded medical research.

An algorithm developed using artificial intelligence could soon be used by doctors to diagnose heart attacks with better speed and accuracy than ever before, according to new research from the University of Edinburgh, funded by us and the National Institute for Health and Care Research, and published today in Nature Medicine.

Despite 35,000 women in the UK being admitted to hospital each year with a heart attack, women are more likely than men to be misdiagnosed. Heart Matters finds out more

Heart bypass surgery can help relieve the symptoms of angina and improve quality of life. We talk to Professor Gavin Murphy about what's involved.

Heart Failure Heart Attack Exercise Heart health information in BHF in Gujarati

Find out why some heart attacks are ‘silent’ with Professor Tim Chico.

RESEARCH

University of Bristol | Professor Jules Hancox

The heart’s ability to pump blood depends on co-ordinated electrical activity generated by molecules in heart cells called ‘ion channels’. One of these channels is called hERG, and is essential for normal heart function. However, many drugs...

Carol Ighofose thought that she was having a heart attack - but she wasn't diagnosed until it was too late to save her heart from damage.