Affairs of the heart
A series of scientific guides on the workings of the heart, produced in association with the British Heart Foundation
006: And just like that, he was gone – podcast
Two callers tell Leah Green how relationships turned their lives upside down
Heart surgery on a knife edge – video
Dr Kevin Fong talks to Dr Bruce Martin, an anaesthetist at University College London Hospital, about the hazards of keeping patients safely anaesthetised during heart surgery
Emergency repairs – video
Prof Paul Riley of the University of Oxford explains his team's revolutionary approach to preventing heart failure in people who are at high risk of a heart attack
The triumph of heart drugs – video
Kevin Fong talks to his former tutor, Prof Raymond MacAllister of University College Hospital, about drug treatments that reduce the number of heart attacks. They discuss the uncertainties that still surround how drugs like ACE inhibitors work, and the difficulty of bringing new heart drugs to market
The story of a single heartbeat - video
In the first of four scientific tours of the heart, Prof Michael Shattock of King's College London tells the story of a single heartbeat
