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University of Leicester | Dr Michael Sweeting

People with heart and circulatory diseases are living longer thanks to improvements in treatment. This means we need to better understand what other long-term conditions they may develop as they grow older (such as cancer). Health data in...

Our analysis of NHS England data shows one in four people are waiting over four months for their heart operations or other heart procedures.

Discover 10 stretches from exercise specialist Andrew Scard to help your joints and muscles move more easily, including hamstring, neck and shoulder stretches.

Today we have published our Annual Report and Accounts for 2023/24, which tells the story of how, in the face of significant challenges, we have continued to power lifesaving cardiovascular research, to save and improve more lives.

RESEARCH

University of Leeds | Professor Sven Plein

BHF Professor Sven Plein and colleagues at the University of Leeds are studying how a drug can protect people with diabetes and heart disease from developing further heart problems. People with diabetes are more likely to have a heart at...

To support our bright young scientists towards successful completion of their PhD projects, we are offering studentship extensions of up to six months depending on the year of study.

The first drug treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms could be on the horizon after research we part funded found that cholesterol lowering drugs might help to slow their growth.

Meet the researcher who is looking at pacemakers, and how they may give early warning signs of hospitalisation from heart failure.

Reducing the UK’s average daily salt intake to within international guidelines could result in 135,000 fewer new cases of coronary heart disease in the UK by 2035, according to new analysis we commissioned.  

We're giving supporters the chance to be a part of history and help the seven million people suffering from heart and circulatory disease after unveiling the sculpture - The Heart of Steel.