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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, he looks at the many roles of the stethoscope in medical practice … past, present and future....

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 looks at how to decipher patient’s notes....

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 looks at the changing fashion for neck wear in and out of the theatre....

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 looks at how satellite navigation can help cardiologists...

Italian public smoking ban leads to fall in MI rates New cardio-renal group launched Community-based intervention shows promise New editorial board member...

We report the highlights from this year’s American Heart Association (AHA) meeting held in Chicago, Ohio, US, from November 11th-16th, 2006. These included studies showing regression of atherosclerosis, a study showing the effect of statins in renal disease, and a study showing the cost-effectiveness of BNP testing in diagnosing heart failure....

An abundance of new information on the controversy surrounding drug-eluting stents was presented and discussed at the Transcatheter and Therapeutics (TCT) meeting held in Washington DC, US, in October. The controversy, which dominated the World Congress of Cardiology, in Barcelona, Spain, the previous month, centres around concern about a possible increase in late stent thrombosis leading to death and myocardial infarction (MI) in patients receiving drug-eluting stents....

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 looks at the myriad of signs that dominate hospital life....

The 2006 Congress of the European Society of Cardiology joined with the World Heart Federation’s XVth World Congress of Cardiology this year and was held in Barcelona, Spain, from 2nd–6th September 2006. The joint meeting was dominated by one subject – new concerns about increased mortality and myocardial infarction with drug-eluting stents. We report on this and other highlights from this year’s meeting....

Big trouble in little Britain The recent 20th Annual Medical and Scientific Meeting of H.E.A.R.T UK focussed on obesity, cardiovascular disease and diet. Here Helen Rivas-Toro, a lipid clinic sister at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, reports on the highlights of the meeting from Canterbury....