16 October 2018
Nearly a third of UK adults not likely to perform CPR if they saw someone suffer a cardiac arrest, according to new figures released to mark Restart a Heart Day.
10 October 2018
The British Heart Foundation has today announced the appointment of Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan as a new Associate Medical Director
10 October 2018
New findings reveal the devastating impact heart and circulatory conditions can have on many patients’ sex lives across the UK.
8 October 2018
An international team of scientists we helped fund have developed a genetic tool that can spot someones risk of having a heart at as an adult much earlier in life.
5 October 2018
Nearly one in four deaths in people with heart failure are caused by sepsis but our researchers have developed a way to spot patients who are most at risk
5 October 2018
The red carpet was rolled out on Friday 5 October for celebrity guests and inspirational British Heart Foundation supporters at a glittering riverside reception in the vaults of the Globe Theatre in London.
4 October 2018
Researchers at the University of Leicester have been awarded £320,000 to study the best treatment for wake-up stroke patients. The clinical study will involve 200 patients from at least 10 UK hospitals.
3 October 2018
Scientists we fund at the University of Leeds are to explore how to repair the damage caused by a heart attack. Dr Andrew Smith and his colleagues have been awarded £97,000 to investigate how to grow new blood vessels by ‘turning on’ stem cells in the heart.
3 October 2018
People across Scotland who are unknowingly at risk of dying from a fatal heart condition can now be better identified and treated thanks to a cardiac nurse service provided by funding from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the family of Sir David Frost.
2 October 2018
New research suggests 50% of women will develop dementia, Parkinson’s or suffer a stroke in their lifetime