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New research, presented today at the World Stroke Congress 2024, and published in the Lancet, suggests that people with atrial fibrillation (AF) who have a stroke, could benefit from blood thinning treatments, known as anticoagulants, at an earlier stage than is currently recommended.

1500 Irish League footballers and coaches and 10,000 supporters in Northern Ireland will learn vital lifesaving skills during Heart Month in February. The Northern Ireland Football League (NIFL) has teamed up with the British Heart Foundation Northern Ireland (BHF NI) to promote the charity’s free and innovative online CPR training tool RevivR.

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced that a central London Car Free Day event will return on Sunday 20 September as part of his bold plans to tackle London’s toxic air.

Our expert explains what the paleo diet, also called the caveman diet, is and what's good and bad about it. Find out more.

Knowing your real size is important. BHF Associate Medical Director Dr Mike Knapton tells Senior Cardiac Nurse Emily McGrath why.

Waiting lists for heart care fell slightly for the second time in two months – but average ambulance response times for heart attacks and strokes remain “dangerously long”, new data shows.

Research funded by us, presented at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference and funded by us, has shown that the more children a mother has, the greater her risk of heart attack, stroke and heart failure.

People who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest should be taken straight to their nearest emergency department, according to research we’ve funded presented today at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Amsterdam and published in The Lancet.

You can help heal hearts this Christmas by taking part in a BHF festive fundraisers. In the wake of the coronavirus crisis, the BHF needs the public’s support more than ever to enable it to continue our life saving research and provide vital support to the 7.4 million people in the UK living with heart and circulatory diseases.

The British Heart Foundation has paid tribute to the life and work of Professor Tony Gershlick, who sadly died on Friday the 20th of November 2020 after contracting Covid-19. Professor Gershlick was considered a ‘leading light’ interventional cardiology – a field which involves using angiograms and stents to treat heart attacks and heart disease.