2004, Volume 11, Issue 06, pages 413-496

The Calman Review of 1998 recognised that continuing medical education through the postgraduate education allowance scheme (PGEA) had failed to deliver improvements in patient care....

Palpitations are a common complaint. It is useful for the GP to determine which are benign and which are potentially life-threatening and require urgent referral. Two...

Audits of cholesterol management in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) demonstrate that many patients do not achieve targets set out in national guidelines. Under-treatment...

Five-fluorouracil (5-FU) is commonly used to treat solid tumours, and in palliative and adjuvant chemotherapy. The agent 5-FU is being used in ever-increasing dosage, and...

Carotid artery disease is a major cause of stroke. Carotid endarterectomy when performed with a low complication rate in patients with severe lesions has been...

This image shows a non-communicative atrial septal aneurysm (ASA), as seen on trans-oesophageal echocardiography, in a 57-year-old man with multiple cerebral and pulmonary emboli. He was...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest sustained cardiac arrhythmia and a significant cause of hospital admission, morbidity and mortality. AF significantly increases the risk of...

The objective of this study was to examine the association of delusional and real memories for events with both the pre-operative and early post-operative clinical...

The objective of this study was to examine the association of delusional and real memories for events with both the pre-operative and early post-operative clinical...

Diabetes is associated with the development of premature cardiovascular disease. In the three early trials of statin therapy for patients with established coronary heart disease...

Statins are prescribed worldwide for patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and also for those at risk of developing atherosclerotic vascular disease. They represent a...

Over the last decade improvements in the anaesthetic, medical and surgical management of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), along with refinements in cardiopulmonary...

A recent report in the British Medical Journal has suggested that the incidence of myocardial infarctions has only plateaued with the rise in statin prescriptions...