2009, Volume 16, Issue 01, pages 1-48

“Old age starts with the first fall and death comes with the second.”1 Syncopal events and falls are a major healthcare and cost burden for the...

General practitioners (GPs) have become used to asking their patients fairly detailed questions about the traditional risk factors, such as smoking habits, and measuring blood...

We continue our series in which Consultant Interventionist Dr Michael Norell takes a sideways look at life in the cath lab… and beyond. In this...

A new on-line resource from the National Library for Health – the Vascular Specialist Library – has been launched to provide information for both health...

Two government websites – NHS Choices and NHS Direct – have joined forces to provide the public with a one stop health information service: www.nhs.uk....

As one person is diagnosed with diabetes every three minutes, faster than ever before, according to the charity Diabetes UK, the pharmaceutical company MSD is...

People who have been diagnosed with panic attacks or panic disorder have a greater risk of subsequently developing heart disease or a myocardial infarction (MI)...

Phase III clinical study results with a nicotinic acid/laropiprant combination (Tredaptive®), show that in the treatment of patients with dyslipidaemia and primary hypercholesterolaemia, this new...

A new report Focus on heart failure, by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, aims to provide primary and secondary care services with guidance on...

The Scottish Heart and Arterial Risk Prevention Group (SHARP) was launched in 1988 with the aim of helping to reduce and prevent premature morbidity and...

A busy and varied programme discussing some of the hottest topics in cardiovascular disease was presented at the 11th Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS) Annual...

Blackout is a common, alarming symptom occurring across patients of all ages, and can create enormous psychological and social distress. In this review, we describe...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is an increasingly widespread condition, the prognosis for moderate and severe heart failure is almost identical to colorectal cancer1 and worse...

The amyloidoses comprise a collection of disorders in which proteins, some native and some mutated, are deposited in tissues. These proteins self-assemble themselves to form...

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a safe and accurate imaging modality, with an established role in current cardiology practice. It is becoming essential for cardiologists...

A 52-year-old man presented to the emergency department with increasingly frequent anginal chest pain. He had had an anterior ST elevation myocardial infarction two years...

Teaching and learning the three-dimensional anatomy of the heart can be challenging. The use of the hand to model structures in the heart has proven...

The cardiovocal syndrome was first described by Otner, a Viennese physician, in 1897.1 It refers to a clinical syndrome of hoarseness due to dysfunction of...