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Rapid rollout of blood-thinning drugs saves thousands of lives, says NHS

Increased use of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) prevented an estimated 17,000 strokes and 4,000 deaths in the last 18 months in England The National...

CCA calls government to commission pharmacies as first port of call for cardiovascular care

Community pharmacies will be able to deliver approximately 15 million blood pressure screenings by 2026, revealed the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA)'s new research. This will...

Novartis scraps UK heart attack prevention trial

Novartis is halting a UK-based trial originally planned as part of a partnership with NHS England, a setback in its quest to win wider...

‘UK South Asians five times more prone to diabetes’

Type 2 diabetes is up to five times more predominant in South Asian populations living in the UK as compared with their white European...

Machine learning algorithm may help identify high risk atrial fibrillation patients

Global biopharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer, have jointly developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based machine learning (ML) algorithm to identify atrial fibrillation (AF)...