Patients suffering serious heart attacks could have to wait for a roadside rendezvous in their ambulance with a paramedic before getting any pain relief

Americans with trouble breathing or vague feelings in their chest frequently wait too long before calling 911 and getting the paramedics

The risks associated with the use of the combination of aspirin and clopidogrel before surgery are incompletely understood

A patient died from a heart attack the day after a ‘dismissive’ nurse told him he was suffering indigestion, a misconduct hearing was told

A defibrillator for extreme conditions, or extremely clumsy paramedics

Healthy people who take a daily “polypill” combining a statin, aspirin and three drugs that lower blood pressure can halve their chances of a heart attack or stroke, a study suggests.
The long-awaited findings of the Tips trial, presented yesterday at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Florida, showed that the single-pill formulation [...]