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Highlights from the recent American Heart Association meeting held in Orlando, Florida, USA, from 14th–18th November 2009, included good news for niacin but not for...

Correspondence to Cardiac Cardiac rehabilitation: we should all be doing...

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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 column,...

With advances in cardiac imaging modalities, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of cardiac computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The...

A wealth of ECG textbooks exist but this pocketbook tackles ECGs with a remarkably practical approach while still providing essential knowledge. The entire book reads...

Fat around the heart— known as pericardial fat— may be a better predictor of future heart disease than either body mass index (BMI) or waist...

The Framingham and UKPDS (United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study) risk equations overestimate the probability of cardiovascular events in people with type 2 diabetes, according to...

A new stethoscope – the Littmann 3200 – is now available which is the first to enable Bluetooth transfer of sounds to software for storage...

Conventional cooling methods can improve survival and reduce neurologic injury after cardiac arrest, a new Cochrane Review...