Funds plea to find heart failure cure

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) said regenerative medicine research could cure heart failure – a condition most commonly caused by a heart attack.

Launching its Mending Broken Hearts appeal, the charity said stem cell research and developmental biology could work out how to repair damaged heart muscle.

Professor Peter Weissberg, medical director at the BHF, said: “More and more people are surviving heart attacks due to the huge advances we’ve made in cardiology, but that isn’t the end of the story. A heart attack causes damage which can leave a person facing a horrendous daily struggle.

“We believe a cure for heart failure is a goal we can achieve. We want to advance the science so that when someone has a heart attack, doctors have the tools to help repair the heart.”