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The NHS is asking the government to provide an extra £10bn in funding next year, after a joint report by NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation set out the full scale of the running costs facing the health service.

Empagliflozin reduces the risk of a composite of cardiovascular death or hospitalisation for heart failure in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) with or without diabetes.

New research presented in a Hot Line session today (27th August) at the ESC Congress 2021 has found that haemodynamic guided management may reduce heart failure hospitalisations in patients with earlier stage heart failure.

Remote monitoring of implantable cardiac monitors (ICMs) can help to detect serious arrhythmias in high-risk post-infarction patients with cardiac autonomic dysfunction and moderately reduced ejection fraction, according to a study presented in a Hot Line session at ESC Congress.

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has published new guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure.

In the second of a two-part series on women's health, Professor Clare Gerada talks to Kathy Oxtoby about key health issues for older women and what steps they can take to age as healthily as possible from midlife onwards.

The British Medical Association (BMA) are calling on the government to invest in general practice and provide better services for the public.

The number of adults living with hypertension worldwide has doubled over the past 30 years and is directly linked to more than 8.5 million deaths worldwide each year.

Taking vitamin D supplements does not have a beneficial effect on muscle function, strength, or mass, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 

The Royal College of GPs have responded to recent media reports regarding increasing levels of abuse towards GP teams due to frustrations with appointment waiting times.

The Scottish government have published a plan to improve women's health and reduce gendered health inequalities, making Scotland the first country in the UK to have a Women's Health Plan.

In a study published in the BJGP Open, researchers investigated the relationship between shortages in the healthcare workforce and levels of deprivation. 

In the first of a two-part series on women's health, Professor Clare Gerada talks to Kathy Oxtoby about a new project that aims to put women at the centre of their own health and address health gender inequalities.

A new study has found that people who work night shifts are at increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation (AF), an irregular and often abnormally fast heart rhythm.

Researchers are trialling aspirin in combination with immunotherapy as a treatment for triple negative breast cancer.