Hibernating: one riddle of heart disease - General practitioners are in a good position to spot major failings of the medical options available to us. High on the list is the inadequate way we...

Dangers found with 'routine' heart drug - If you're ever admitted to hospital with heart failure, the chances are that your specialist will use the drug perindopril, a long acting angiotensin...

Dangers found with 'routine' heart drug - If you're ever admitted to hospital with heart failure, the chances are that your specialist will use the drug perindopril, a long acting angiotensin...

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...

Arthritis: This drug causes stomach and heart problems, that one causes heart and stomach problems - Arthritis sufferers were traditionally prescribed an NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug) to help relieve the pain. But eventually researcher...

Small units: no improvement - Your chances of survival, or receiving any better treatment, are no better in one of the larger, specialist units beginning to crop up. ...

Disease of the month - A heart less cure - Some heart specialists are begin to experiment with a new procedure for treating end stage heart failure cutting away part of the left ventricle to re...

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...