Our chief executive Dr Charmaine Griffiths shares her thoughts on the Renewed Women's Health Strategy for England.

BHF-funded researchers have developed a new AI tool can predict heart failure at least five years before it develops using ...

Globally-renowned surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub has been honoured with a red plaque from the British Heart Foundation at ...

The Academy of Medical Sciences has awarded £6.3m funding, with the support of BHF, to emerging research leaders ...

We have received the largest philanthropic gift in our history from Garfield Weston Foundation to fund transformational heart ...

Andrew Scard, cardiac rehabilitation specialist for Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, says that gentle exercises can help ease back pain and stiffness, while also increasing your strength and ...

Inflammation is the body’s natural defence system. Acute inflammation is the body’s immediate response to injuries like a cut or burn. The immune system releases chemicals to increase blood flow and ...

Research has suggested that eating more potassium-rich foods, such as avocados, bananas and salmon, can help counter the damaging effects of too much salt. The study also found that potassium-rich ...

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 ...

Senior Cardiac Nurse, Chloe MacArthur, says: Blood thinners (anticoagulants such as warfarin, or antiplatelets such as aspirin or clopidogrel) are taken by many people with heart and circulatory ...

Canned foods are cheap, convenient and last a long time. But they’re often thought to be less healthy than fresh foods. It’s true that some nutrients may be lost during the canning process, when foods ...

How many steps a day is the ‘right’ amount? You might have come across the idea that 10,000 steps a day is the magic number. Many smartphone and wearable step counters are automatically set to this ...