AI has an important role to play in the future of healthcare, offering doctors and healthcare professionals the ability to improve patient care and automate labour-intensive tasks.

The number of people dying before the age of 75 in England from heart and circulatory diseases has risen to the highest level in over a decade, according to new analysis from the British Heart Foundation.

A nationwide conference will be held in May to help healthcare professionals tackle the obesity challenge facing the UK.

A new awards programme designed to celebrate the UK’s diabetes nursing heroes has opened for entries today.

East Kent Hospitals’ consultant stroke physician and clinical lead Dr David Hargroves has been announced as a new National Clinical Director, taking a leading role for NHS England.

Chronic insufficient sleep can increase insulin resistance in otherwise healthy women, with more marked effects in postmenopausal women, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health in the US.

New figures have highlighted how missed targets could be putting people with diabetes and foot ulcer at heightened risk of amputation.

Up to 2.1 million people with cardiovascular disease (CVD) could benefit from a new cholesterol target outlined in NICE guidance for the first time.

Thousands of lives have been saved and almost 17,000 strokes prevented, thanks to the rapid roll out of blood-thinning drugs on the NHS, the head of the health service announced last month.

An independent NICE committee has recommended people whose diabetes is not controlled with their current device despite best possible management with an insulin pump, or real-time or intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring, are offered a hybrid closed loop system.

Almost 3,500 HypoCards have been handed out to people with diabetes providing vital advice on what to do should the card-carrier experience hypoglycaemia – a condition that can be life-threatening.

Stroke patients are getting the care they need faster thanks to new cutting-edge computer technology.

Measuring blood pressure while patients are standing rather than sitting may improve the accuracy of readings, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers in the US report.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded more than £215,000 to purchase a new cutting-edge 4D cardiac ultrasound machine, which will expand scope and innovation of clinical research at the hospital.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded more than £215,000 to purchase a new cutting-edge 4D cardiac ultrasound machine, which will expand scope and innovation of clinical research at the hospital.

A campaign has been launched urging everyone with diabetes to carry a card featuring potentially life-saving advice.

Around 180,000 people with difficult to manage type 2 diabetes could benefit from a new treatment option.

A 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease became the second patient in the world to receive a historic transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart on September 20.

There are only a few places left for a webinar on accessing reports via a web-based solution that allows healthcare professionals to connect with their patients’ blood glucose readings.

People who experience a type of stroke linked with nearly half of all dementias could be treated for the first time by repurposing two cheap and common drugs, a trial shows.