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We report highlights from this year’s British Cardiovascular Society 2014 Annual Conference held on June 2nd–4th 2014. Sessions from the busy programme varied from ‘Cardiology Rocks’ to interactive educational facilities and a multi-modality imaging village. Dr Andrew Cox reports from Manchester highlighting sessions covering arrhythmia management and award-winning presentations from young researchers....

Towards personalised medicine was the general theme of this year’s HEART UK conference, attended by 230 clinical and nursing personnel and patients and held at the University of Warwick from 2nd–4th July 2014. We report some of the meeting highlights....

News in brief from the world of cardiology...

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, he muses on taking work home....

Correspondence from the world of cardiology...

Heart failure: a practical guide for diagnosis and management...

The Cardiomyopathy Association is calling for healthcare professionals to take part in a survey, as part of its drive to improve awareness and symptom recognition of this condition. ...

Hola Madrid! More than 1,800 clinicians and scientists from 75 countries converged on Madrid, Spain, for the 52nd annual congress of the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS), held 31 May–3 June at the Institución Ferial de Madrid. At the opening ceremony EAS President, Professor Alberico Catapano (University of Milan and Multimedica IRCCS, Italy) emphasised that 2014 marks the start of an exciting time in lipid research, with ongoing studies evaluating different approaches to managing patients at high cardiovascular risk, as well as exciting new discoveries in basic research leading to a better understanding of atherosclerotic diseases....

Congratulations to the winners of our prize draw, Ms Hannah Manos (Culm Valley Integrated Centre for Health) and Professor John Somauroo (Countess of Chester NHS Trust), who can each claim a portable heart monitor for their practice. They have both opted to switch from print to receiving their BJC digitally, and were the lucky winners of an AliveCor portable heart monitor in our draw. ...

The European Stroke Conference meeting was held in Nice, France, from May 6th–9th 2014. It was a busy programme with over 1,500 abstracts presented, as well as educational programmes presented alongside the scientific and clinical content. Dr Paul Guyler, Consultant Stroke Physician, Southend University Hospital, NHS Trust reports on some of the highlights....