A new study demonstrated that shingles is associated with an almost 30 per cent higher long-term risk of a major cardiovascular event such as stroke or heart attack.

A Barts Health NHS Trust project which has cut the time spent in hospital for some heart attack patients by more than half has won a Health Service Journal award.

A multi-institution study has identified that iron drives the formation of fatty tissue in the heart and leads to chronic heart failure in about 50 per cent of heart attack survivors.

Severe ambulance delays, inaccessible care and ever-growing waiting lists are contributing to heart patients dying needlessly, warns new analysis from the British Heart Foundation.

University of Queensland researchers have discovered how COVID-19 damages the heart, opening the door to future treatments.

Studies have suggested psoriasis is an independent risk factor for heart attack in the general population, but investigators have made the surprising finding that in people who also have end-stage renal disease, which shares many risk factors with heart disease, it is not.