14 November 2019
The number of people living in England with obesity has risen from 6.9 in 1997 to 13 million in 2017, according to analysis from Diabetes UK.
13 November 2019
We funded a clinical trial which aimed to find out if it is safe for people with dilated cardiomyopathy, but without symptoms, to stop heart failure treatment. But what was it like to take part?
12 November 2019
A new study we funded shows that by age 11, children are doing more than an hour less of physical activity a week than at age 6.
11 November 2019
The British Heart Foundation today announced that Dr Charmaine Griffiths will return to the charity as its new Chief Executive in February 2020. She is a former Executive Director of Strategy & Performance at the BHF.
11 November 2019
The Bristol Symphony Orchestra will bring the sound of the human heart to life in a special concert to help fund our life saving research.
11 November 2019
New research that we're funding at The University of Manchester has the potential to help patients stay out of hospital. By monitoring data collected by pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), researchers hope to use patients' activity levels to predict when they might be becoming ill, and intervene before a hospital stay becomes necessary.
6 November 2019
BHF urges next Government to adopt three key pledges to save thousands more lives
4 November 2019
The number of people being admitted to hospital due to heart failure has risen by a third in the last five years, according to a new analysis by the British Heart Foundation.
3 November 2019
The BHF has partnered with Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals to refine the use of a common blood test to detect heart failure in more patients as early as possible.