These blood-pressure-lowering drugs can calm the rapid heartbeat, shaky voice and trembling hands that can wreck a ...

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

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

A large new study conducted in Spain and Italy found that beta blockers, drugs often used to slow the heart rate and lower blood pressure, did not provide clear benefits for heart attack patients ...

Heart disease kills one in every four people in the United States. And about 70 percent of people 65 and older take heart medications, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some ...

One way or another, beta blockers are always in the news. Take, for instance, Los Angeles Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh, who revealed in October that he's part of a growing group of Americans who ...

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

The drug is used to treat mental health conditions like anxiety, but could have bad side effects for female patients ...

St. Louis, Sept. 27, 2005 -- Survival of heart attack and unstable angina patients placed on beta-blocker therapy corresponds to specific variations in their genes, according to a study by researchers ...

Beta-blockers are a type of medication used after heart attacks. A recent study suggests that using beta-blockers does not improve certain outcomes after heart attacks where the left ventricular ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) A little blue pill is creating a stir in Hollywood – and no, it's not Viagra. It's propranolol, a beta blocker originally designed for heart conditions, that's now making ...