Helena Beer

Long-awaited joint UK guidelines for chronic asthma have been finalised, overhauling diagnosis and treatment recommendations in an effort to better manage the condition in primary care and reduce pressure on hospitals.

In September, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health published its updated position statement on air pollution in the UK. Dr Emily Parker, RCPCH Clinical Fellow and one of the position statement’s authors, explains the importance of this document and its relevance to healthcare professionals.

Professor Philippe L. Pereira – CIRSE president and director of the Center of Radiology, Minimally Invasive Therapies and Nuclear Medicine at the Academic Hospital of Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg in SLK-Clinics Heilbronn, Germany – talks to Saša Janković about the current challenges and opportunities in interventional radiology in Europe, the drive to inspire holistic and multidisciplinary patient care, and his hopes for the future of the field.

Our latest Clinical Excellence in Respiratory Care event included a fascinating panel discussion on managing pulmonary hypertension as a multidisciplinary team (MDT). Here, you have exclusive access to the session recording

Genetics partly influence the shape of the heart’s left and right ventricles, a study shows for the first time, with the findings potentially helping to refine cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment in clinical settings.

Patients with syncope typically present with a transient loss of consciousness, which can have a broad spectrum of causes. Here, Professor Martin Möckel, of the EUSEM syncope group, summarises how group’s new European consensus provides detailed, process-driven guidance on managing and caring for patients with suspected syncope in the emergency setting.

A machine learning model can more accurately estimate the age of acute ischemic brain lesions than current methods, with researchers predicting the software could mean up to 50% more stroke patients receive appropriate treatment.

Daily monitoring of the blood biomarker procalcitonin (PCT) can pinpoint when to safely stop antibiotics in adults hospitalised for suspected sepsis, reducing the duration of therapy compared with standard care, a large study finds.

A team from Leeds Teaching Hospitals discuss the national rollout of a new radiographer-led nasogastric tube position check pathway.

Dr Zaheer Mangera shares insights into the lung cancer pathway and the benefits and challenges of early diagnosis and lung cancer screening.