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Patients with epilepsy have an increased mortality rate compared with the general population.

Coffee drinking has been accused of causing palpitations, raising heart rate, blood pressure and causing other cardiovascular adverse effects.

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has welcomed the findings of a paper presented recently at the American Heart Association’s High Blood Pressure Research 2010 Scientific Sessions (HBPR 2010) held in Washington, DC, USA.

Despite the vast majority (91%) of workers believing that it is their employer’s responsibility to create a healthy working environment, nearly a third (32%) of employees feel their workplace actually hinders their ability to lead a healthy lifestyle, according to new independent research commissioned by the World Heart Federation and conducted by Opinion Health.

A new report issued by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), developed in partnership with the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), provides new and expanded criteria to help clinicians optimally select patients who could benefit from cardiac computed tomography (CCT) and inform payers about appropriate clinical scenarios for its use.

On the opening day of the Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology in Beijing the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) took its first step in a new programme of Global Scientific Activities. The GW-ICC will host a one-day ESC educational programme built around highlights from the Society’s annual meeting in Stockholm and this year’s newly published ESC guidelines.

For the first time, patients in England who have had a heart attack are more likely to have a primary percutaneous intervention (PCI) than receive thrombolysis. Figures from the ninth annual MINAP audit show that 63% of eligible patients had the balloon catheter procedure, compared to 44% in 2008/9. In Wales the increase was from 11% to 22%. Results for local hospitals are contained in the attached report.

October 3rd – 6th 2010 saw over 1,500 delegates descend upon the Birmingham Metropole Hilton Hotel for this year’s Heart Rhythm Congress (HRC). This report examines some of the highlights of this ever more popular meeting.

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has welcomed a paper published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) (1) highlighting concerns over the use of oxygen therapy during MI in patients with normal oxygen levels.

Short falls with community rehabilitation services are undermining the advances in acute medicine for patients who have suffered a stroke, according to a new report produced by the Royal College of Physicians.