Can Oxygen Help Chronic Heart Failure Patients?
Around 669,000 people in the UK over the age of 45 years suffer from chronic heart failure (CHF), a condition in which the heart is too weak to efficiently pump the blood around the body. CHF is commonly characterized by breathlessness and can be worse when the patient is at rest sleeping. Despite conclusive evidence in terms of its efficiency, doctors frequently prescribe home oxygen therapy (HOT) to treat CHF symptoms, which can be inconvenient for patients, as well as expensive... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Metformin benefits in diabetes management ‘still unclear’
The efficacy of metformin in preventing death or cardiovascular events has not been proven by current studies, even though the drug is considered the first-line treatment for Type 2 diabetes, show findings from a meta-analysis. (Source: MedWire News - Cardiology)