Imagine you're about to give a presentation to a room full of people. Your heart starts racing, your hands become sweaty and your voice begins to shake. Despite how much you've prepared, those ...

People who have had a heart attack may be able to safely discontinue beta-blocker use after a year if they are at low-risk ...

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Among stable, relatively low-risk patients who had previously suffered a heart attack, discontinuing beta-blockers after at least one year was found to be non-inferior, or comparable, to continuing ...

Current guideline recommendations for the use of beta-blockers after myocardial infarction without reduced ejection fraction are based on trials conducted before routine reperfusion, invasive care, ...

The 3 common mainstays of angina therapy are beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, and nitrates. These medicines treat the chest pain and provide other benefits as well. Isosorbide is a nitrate, ...

Rendering a drug effective or ineffective in a flash at the appropriate location—this is the focus of research in photopharmacology. The goal is to develop drugs that can be switched on and off with ...

When performing onstage, Dania Hallak, a singer and songwriter, sometimes found she couldn’t hit lower notes. Her vocal coach suggested it was performance anxiety. Hallak saw her doctor, who ...

The SMART-DECISION trial has found that in stabilized patients after myocardial infarction (MI) without heart failure or left ventricular systolic dysfunction, discontinuing beta-blockers after one ...