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Project title: Football Fit Region: Glasgow, Scotland Award amount: £14,600 Award Date: January 2024 – March 2025 This Healthy Heart Grant project has now finished. Read on for the project highlights. The Problem Glasgow areas Maryhill and Springburn have one of the highest levels of deprivation in the country, with life expectancy of these communities […]
By Olivia Schofield When the heart is exposed to extreme heat, it has to work harder to keep the body cool to ensure it can work effectively. Dr Roy Jogiya, Chief Medical Adviser at Heart Research UK, reveals how hot weather can affect your heart and how you can stay cool. What happens to your […]
Heart Research UK is funding the ‘THINK AORTA’ campaign, which aims to highlight early diagnosis of aortic dissection. Aortic dissection is a rare but life-threatening condition where there is a tear in the inner wall of the aorta, the main artery in the body and carries blood from the heart to all organs.The campaign was […]
Course defibrillator locator & CPR instructions on Motocaddy app welcomed by Heart Research UK Motocaddy, the world’s top-selling powered trolley brand, is upgrading its popular free-to-use GPS app to incorporate potential lifesaving features that indicate the location of on-course defibrillators and provide golfers with CPR instructions to administer to anyone suffering a cardiac arrest when playing […]
Meet Caterina, a passionate PhD researcher at Queen Mary University of London, who’s taking her commitment to heart research beyond the lab. Specialising in atrial fibrillation and using artificial intelligence to find better treatments, Caterina is running the London Marathon for Heart Research UK. Motivated by her family’s own battles with heart disease, she’s not […]
Project title: Ederney Healthy Hearts Region: Northern Ireland Award amount: £13,685 Award date: July 2024 – January 2025 This Healthy Heart Grant project has now finished, read on for the project highlights. The Problem Ederney is a small rural village that falls within the top 10% of deprivation for access to services as well as […]
Your generosity empowers young researchers like Dr Penny to lead the way in transforming cardiovascular medicine. She began her journey with the Excellence in Scholarship, Enterprise and Leadership (EXSEL) programme. Each year, Heart Research UK funds two of these scholarships at the University of Leeds, giving students the opportunity to conduct medical research with specialists […]
Heart Research UK and the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) are delighted to announce the successful applicants for their clinical fellowship opportunities in 2025. The scheme offers the potential for clinical top-up training, allowing candidates across the NHS workforce to gain new clinical skills or experience in a global centre of excellence. Dr Reshma Amin, a […]
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Does your weight loss journey feel like a never-ending cycle? Health and Wellbeing expert Amie Leckie and Registered Associate Nutritionist Lauren Hewitt explain some factors impacting your weight loss and tips on dietary and lifestyle choices you can make to help you lose weight.
December is the time of year for gathering with family and friends, and these social occasions often revolve around alcohol. Consuming too much alcohol can have a negative impact on your heart, and even if you don’t drink often, a few drinks can cause you to sleep poorly and be tired the next day making you reach for unhealthy foods for a quick energy fix.
Many people think that artificial sweeteners are a healthy and safe alternative to sugar, but is this the case?
Ball games are fun at any age, and a great way to get our hearts pumping! Here we explore some games you can enjoy with the little ones in your life, whether they are babies, toddlers or pre-schoolers.