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A home device which scans someone’s feet as soon as they get out of bed in the morning could keep people with heart failure out of hospital, according to research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester.

We rounded up 2021 with a special Live & Ticking event looking at some of the year’s biggest breakthroughs and the scientists behind them.

Some people are born with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), a genetic condition where your liver can’t process cholesterol properly. Learn more about FH, including the signs and symptoms, tests and treatments.

Drugs currently undergoing development to treat anaemia could be repurposed to help prevent people with Type 2 diabetes from developing heart failure, according to new research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).

New genetic faults discovered in people with a heart condition that is sometimes inherited in families could transform the diagnosis and treatment of the hidden disease, according to research funded by us and published in Nature Genetics.

Book a house clearance with the BHF. We remove items and household waste from a property to sell in our shops, recycle or dispose of properly.

Your sports club can help us raise money for lifesaving research. From tournaments to quiz nights, get your team involved with these top fundraising ideas.

Find out how experiences like heart attacks and cardiac arrests can cause PTSD and how PTSD symptoms are treated, with helpful tips from a specialist psychologist.

Future heart attacks could be better prevented in people visiting their GP with unexplained chest pain, after researchers we've funded developed the clearest picture yet of the factors that put them at higher risk.

Truncus arteriosus (TA) is a congenital heart defect that means you're born with one large blood vessel instead of two. It causes blood high in oxygen and blood low in oxygen to mix.