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Anne Bastick shares her experience of heart valve surgery and explains how her mechanical valve has given her a long and fulfilled life.

More than 8,200 women in England and Wales could have survived their heart attacks had they simply been given the same quality of treatment as men.

Stark inequalities in awareness, diagnosis and treatment of heart attacks are leading to women needlessly dying every day in the UK, according to our new briefing.

We’re exploring the opportunities and challenges facing the cardiovascular healthcare workforce.

British Heart Foundation Northern Ireland (BHF NI) and the Donate4Dáithí campaign have urged the Stormont Health Committee not to lose momentum in the plans to change organ donation legislation.

RESEARCH

University of Leeds | Dr Vijayalakshmi Deivasikamani

The heart continuously pumps blood into the blood vessels, exerting a force on the walls of the blood vessels. It’s long been thought that this pressure is ‘sensed’ somehow by the specialist cells that line the vessels, and converted into s...

RESEARCH

University of Edinburgh | Dr Neeraj Dhaun

High blood pressure (hypertension) is an important risk factor for heart disease, and its cause remains unclear in most people. Recent studies have suggested that a particular cell within the immune system, the macrophage, is involved in th...

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