Category: Cardiovascular medicine, General practice / family medicine, UK

Doctors in the UK will be able to prescribe the weight loss drug semaglutide (Wegovy)…

There is an urgent need to improve the nation’s health, which worsened over the pandemic….

Many years ago I wrote a dissertation on convergent evolution, looking at the similarities between…

Doctors should aim to reduce low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels among people with cardiovascular…

Cardiac catheterisation laboratories or “cath labs”—a cross between operating theatres and x ray rooms—are an…

Local GP leaders across the south of England have told practices not to follow the…

A novel anti-cholesterol drug, to be given in primary care as a twice yearly injection,…

Obesity is a focus of political and media discussion, since multiple datasets have shown that…

Taking action to reduce “bad” cholesterol much earlier in life could prevent many cardiovascular events,…