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

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

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

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Beta-blocker use at hospital admission for acute decompensated HF was associated with lower in-hospital ...

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 ...

Background Since the 1960s, beta blockers have been used to treat hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM), a genetic ...

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 ...

New research has found that beta blockers, a class of drugs used to prevent the progression of heart failure and manage arrhythmias (irregular heart beat) and hypertension (high blood pressure), are ...

Some patients who received beta-blockers before and around the time of undergoing non-cardiac surgery appear to have higher rates of heart attack and death within 30 days of their surgery, according ...