Emergency care: - It's so bad that it kills a third of patients - The health service is seriously overstretched. Patients with chronic conditions that require routine care tend to get the worst of it, so perhaps the...

Emergency care: - Heart patients are better off without it - Whatever we may think about the drug companies, we recognize that the doctors who work tirelessly in our emergency wards are heroes. Should we ever f...

Heart Attack: Patients given useless drug - Patients who are rushed into intensive care after a sudden heart attack are being given a useless drug.

Heart disease heart disease: - Less of a killer without the drugs - Heart disease is already the leading cause of death in the USA and the UK, and forecasters reckon it will soon be the major killer in every developed...

Heart disease: - Antibiotics don't help - Heart patients might have been puzzled to be given a prescription for an antibiotic as part of their preventative treatment. After all, how's that su...

Adverse Reactions: 700,000 people need emergency hospital care every year - Statistic of the week: Every year 700,000 people in the USA need emergency out-patient hospital care following an adverse reaction to a prescription...

Defibrillators don't benefit patients after heart attack - Latest clinical trials confirm that implanted cardiac defibrillators do not benefit heart attack patients. ...

Causes of heart disease - It’s not too controversial to suggest that one of the chief causes of the epidemic of heart disease in the West is the industrialisation of our food s...