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University of Manchester | Dr Shane Herbert

Diseases including coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes affect our blood vessels, causing damage by limiting blood supply. One way to avoid these dangerous consequences could be to encourage healthy new blood vessels to grow. Lead by...

We have given a £1 million award to boost research into heart and circulatory conditions, including congenital heart disease.

Research funded by us has revealed for the first time a mechanism explaining why potentially lethal heart rhythm disturbances are more likely to occur in the morning, when people wake after a night’s sleep.

Scientists at the University of East Anglia are studying the formation of blood vessels to help improve the treatment of heart attacks.

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is calling on the public to donate their quality unwanted Christmas gifts to help fund lifesaving research into heart and circulatory diseases.

We have appointed Sir Kent Woods, former Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees, as a Distinguished Fellow

More than 700 BHF runners laced up their trainers and pounded our capital’s streets to take on the iconic 2023 TCS London Marathon on Sunday 23rd April, raising over £1.6 million.

Scientists we part-fund have created a cellular and molecular map of the healthy human heart, to understand how the organ functions, and to shed light on what goes wrong in heart disease.

You might already know that a Mediterranean diet is linked to better health, but what is it and what exactly are the benefits of eating the Mediterranean way? Our animation explains.

This page describes how your doctor can use an Electrophysiological (EP) study to look at your heart's electrical activity, what happens during and after an EP study and the risks of having the test.