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There is one free <a href="/pages/collections/editors_choice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Editor’s Choice</a> article in each issue, with open access options available to authors for all articles. <a href="/pages/collections/education_in_heart" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Education in Heart</a> articles provide a comprehensive, continuously updated, cardiology curriculum.</p> <p>Heart promotes active interchange among researchers and readers to come together as a community to advance science and improve patient care via regular free audio <a href="https://heartbmj.podbean.com">podcasts</a>, letters to the Editor, and news via <a href="https://twitter.com/Heart_BMJ">X,</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Heart.BMJ">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/cardiology-at-bmj/">LinkedIn</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://heartbmj.podbean.com"><span style="float: left;padding-top: 7px;padding-right: 10px;padding-bottom: 0"><img src="https://resources.bmj.com/repository/journals-network-project/images/wordpress/icon-podcast-blue.svg" alt="icon-podcast" width="30" /></span></a></p> <p><a href="https://heartbmj.podbean.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Listen to the Heart Podcast</a>, which is published twice a month, and subscribe in all podcast platforms, including <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/heart-podcast/id445358212" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/7p3UaCCIXCYmChOA647rxp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spotify</a> and <a href="https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ab5e7eb4-a558-4c6b-ace0-6ac54ef40e94/heart-podcast">Amazon Music</a>.</p> <p>Heart is the flagship of BMJ's cardiology portfolio and has an open access companion journal, <a href="https://openheart.bmj.com/"><i>Open Heart</i></a>. 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