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The Heart Foundation’s free cookbook, Cheap Eats, is helping people learn to cook heart healthy food for less than $3 per serve.

The Heart Foundation and the Healthier Lives National Science Challenge have joined forces to tackle the inequities in health outcomes from cardiovascular disease amongst Māori and Pacific people.

The findings of a nationwide heart research project have been presented by New Zealand cardiologist, Professor Ralph Stewart, in Paris this morning (2.40am NZT).

Heart disease is a major killer for people with mental illness and one Wellington doctor is trying to turn this around.

As part of his PhD, Dr Steve Waqanivavalagi is engineering tissue heart valves in the lab and hopes his new Heart Foundation funding will help make the valves last a patient’s lifetime.

Kiwi researchers are trying to find out how long to give blood-thinning treatments to heart attack survivors.

Just what New Zealand children are eating isn’t clear and new research aims to find out.

The Heart Foundation today announced $3.7 million of funding for heart research and specialist training for New Zealand cardiologists, bringing the total awarded by the charity since its formation in 1968, to more than $74 million dollars.

Work towards a vaccine to stop rheumatic fever is "looking more promising", says Heart Foundation Fellow Dr Jacelyn Loh.

Research into the quality of carbohydrates on our supermarket shelves aims to give New Zealanders clear advice on what foods to enjoy most.

Dr Moritz Lassé, Research Fellow with the Christchurch Heart Institute, a University of Otago Research Centre, has been awarded a Heart Foundation small project grant to help pick up kidney damage after heart failure.

While still in his thirties, dad-of-three and former Flava Breakfast host Sela Alo, was diagnosed with a heart condition and now he's encouraging people to get a free pulse check as part of the Heart Foundation's atrial fibrillation awareness week.