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

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 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...

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

Emergency care: Thanks - but no thanks - While emergency medicine can be a lifesaver, heart-attack victims may do better with general care instead.

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...

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...