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Science

High blood pressure during pregnancy - how our research is helping women like Becki

11 November 2023

Survival and support

BHF launches free defibrillator scheme to save lives in communities across the UK

9 November 2023

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Average ambulance waits for heart attacks and strokes highest since last December in England

9 November 2023

An ambulance arrives at a 1960s hospital emergency department. There is a red sign saying accident and emergency at the entrance.. There is already an ambulance unloading a patient in the loading bay.

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Tobacco measures headline King’s Speech

8 November 2023

Blog

“After my stroke, I spent the next decade trying to find ways to get some sleep”

30 October 2023

Alice Timmons

BHF shops

Menswear is flying off our shelves, but why don’t more men donate?

27 October 2023

Brett Staniland in the British Heart Foundation eBay warehouse wearing a British Heart Foundation high-vis jacket.

Science

Technicolour map of heart signals wins national science image competition

24 October 2023

Marina Strocchi's winning image, mapping heart cell bundles that pass on the signal that causes the heart to contract

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Sweeping action needed to reduce childhood obesity rates

19 October 2023

A child on some scales

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Menopause Mandate unite with BHF to encourage women to learn more about heart risk in menopause

17 October 2023

A woman in black and white clutches her chest which is glowing red

Survival and support

Take part and learn CPR for Restart a Heart

16 October 2023

CPR being performed on a manikin

Science

Hope for first drug treatment for life-threatening aneurysms

16 October 2023

CT scan of someone with an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Their kidneys can be seen towards the top of the image, and below a bulge in the aorta can be seen (highlighted in red)

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Heart care waiting list rises by over 60,000 people in just one year

12 October 2023

A stock photo of a busy hospital. It focuses on a young black female doctor in a white coat talking to a male white nurse in blue scrubs inside a hospital near the entrance. Everyone around them is blurred to indicate fast movement

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