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A pacemaker is a small device that can treat some abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias). Find out what it looks like, how it works and how it's fitted.

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Research funded by us is investigating if cheap, existing drugs currently used to treat other heart and circulatory diseases could help patients who have a lacunar stroke

BHF and UK DRI have today announced plans for the UK’s first research Centre dedicated to finding new treatments to prevent, halt and cure vascular dementia.

We've joined forces with the family of Miles Frost, who died age 31 of an undiagnosed heart condition. The Miles Frost Fund will help to fund a genetic test for families at risk of the inherited condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

RESEARCH

University College London | Dr Gaby Captur

Researchers are adding vital new data to a long-running study revealing how individual circumstances impact our lifelong heart health. In 1946, over 5,000 parents enrolled their new babies in the MRC National Survey of Health and Develop...

RESEARCH

University of Oxford | Professor Paul Leeson

During pregnancy some women develop severe high blood pressure called pre-eclampsia and gestational hypertension. After pregnancy, the blood pressure often settles but the changes in their body can persist. These women are at higher risk of...

The British Heart Foundation has today announced the appointment of Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan as a new Associate Medical Director

A new artificial intelligence tool, which has been developed with funding from us, can help to diagnose acute heart failure more accurately than current blood tests alone.

Today, the Queen’s Speech set out the Government’s agenda for the next 12 months. The Government has still not provided much-needed detail on how it will deliver transformative care for heart patients.