A new study out of Europe has called into question the effectiveness of beta blockers, one of the most frequently prescribed ...

Heart disease has been the leading cause of death in the U.S. for 100 years, according to the American Heart Association’s 2024 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics report. For decades, beta-blockers ...

As a cardiologist, I frequently meet patients who have stopped taking medicines that could keep them alive. Often it’s because they’ve seen a dramatic headline or a worrying TV report about a drug ...

Doctors are reassessing decades of standard treatment for patients who have had heart attacks after new research shows ...

Beta blockers, traditionally used to treat high blood pressure, have become the go-to medication for anxiety — but they are helpful in “limited situations,” an expert tells PEOPLE Cara Lynn Shultz is ...

A new, long-term study recently released in the New England Journal of Medicine has cardiologists in Western Pennsylvania ...

Beta-blockers may fight the progression of triple-negative breast cancer, researchers have found Getty Beta blockers — a commonly prescribed blood pressure medication — may be useful in stopping the ...

Our findings in a large, population-based registry of over 20 000 patients with a recent hospitalization for documented HF suggest that prescription of a non-selective beta-blocker is associated with ...

Across several clinical outcomes, including 28-day mortality, beta-blocker esmolol was more effective than standard care and landiolol in adults with septic shock, according to findings presented at ...