Keep Us Beating, the new BHF campaign to highlight that every 3 minutes someone in the UK dies from cardiovascular disease, ...

We have awarded £28 million to seven university-led consortia to deliver the latest round of our 4‑year PhD programme. The ...

We have awarded almost £30 million to seven university-led consortia to deliver the latest round of its 4‑year PhD programme.

BHF’s Chair of Trustees, Karen Frank, has won a Non-Executive Director Award in recognition of her outstanding leadership, ...

We are pleased to announce that Gerry McCann has been appointed BHF Professor of Cardiology at the University of Leicester ...

With obesity being one of the leading preventable risk factors for cardiovascular disease, Policy Officer Zoe Rostas reflects ...

We're excited to announce a new partnership with Toolstation, one of the UK's leading suppliers of tools and building ...

High cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease. Alarmingly, about half of adults in the UK have total cholesterol levels above the recommended healthy limit of 5mmol/L. Knowing which are ...

Protein is needed for both building and repairing muscle, so you might think to gain more muscle quickly you need to eat extra protein. This isn’t the case. Muscle growth happens when we exercise, ...

Recent headlines have claimed that isometric exercises, such as wall squats and planks, are best for lowering blood pressure. Is this true? We go behind the headlines. New research published in the ...

Just 11 minutes a day of moderate physical activity, such as brisk walking, lowers the risk of an early death, according to researchers from the University of Cambridge. The researchers looked at more ...

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