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  This section includes reports from the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2013, Amsterdam.

Prime Minister David Cameron has unveiled plans to allow more patients the chance to visit a GP in the evening or at weekends at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.

Prime Minister David Cameron has unveiled plans to allow more patients the chance to visit a GP in the evening or at weekends at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a £200m-a-year fund for life-enhancing cancer drugs due to close next year is now to continue until 2016.

 Sodium-glucose co-transporters (SGLT) are a ubiquitous group of proteins responsible for glucose transport, occurring in brain, bowel and kidney in particular; they control transport of other sugars as well as glucose.

A high prevalence of diabetes exists in older patients and the clinical priorities of managing diabetes in old age are often different compared with other groups.

Services in Tyne & Wear and Hertfordshire are among those joining together for the largest ever event aimed at making older people safer from fire.

 The management of older patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis has undergone a significant transformation over the last 10 years.

  New guidance from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) on diabetes, pre-diabetes and cardiovascular disease was presented last month at the ESC annual meeting.

A group of leading charities for older people have warned ministers that they need to do more to prepare for the health challenges created by the UK's ageing population.

Changes to European medical device regulations will not protect patients with diabetes, according to the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

Changes to European medical device regulations will not protect patients with diabetes, according to the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

The incidence of recurrent wheeze in young children is a common and growing problem in the UK. Rational management is highly dependent on sound identication of causes and proper diagnosis.

Criticism of eastern European immigrants by the United Kingdom Independence Party is fuelling violent attacks on Romanians here, the country's ambassador to the UK has said. 

Two doctors at Hereford's County Hospital are helping to lead the way in NHS research with recent findings from two studies.