Nearly half of all adults in the U.S. have high blood pressure, or hypertension, according to the CDC. One of the most common ...

After 27 years in business, Cytokinetics hopes to pit its own cardiac myosin inhibitor against one it initially developed—now owned by Bristol Myers Squibb—in a market worth billions. Aficamten has a ...

When Lauren Perna’s beloved Chihuahua terrier was dying, her anxiety was so intense that she found herself gasping for air. On her doctor’s advice, she started micro-dosing propranolol, a beta blocker ...

It seems like every few weeks, there’s a new “miracle fix” for anxiety trending on social media. The latest is a decades-old heart medication that more and more people are saying helps them stay calm ...

The deal with a company owned by Embraer gives Beta Technologies an additional source of revenue as it develops its own electric aircraft. By Niraj Chokshi Two companies racing to develop electric ...

Jaimie Veale was the founding President of the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA). She is supported by a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, awarded by Royal Society Te ...

Beta-blockers provide no clinical benefit to post-MI patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction, according to a potentially paradigm-changing meta-analysis. The findings, published ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Beta-blockers did not improve clinical outcomes after ...

Panelists discuss how β-blockers remain foundational therapy for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (using evidence-based agents like carvedilol, metoprolol succinate, or bisoprolol) with ...

Doctors are reassessing decades of standard treatment for patients who have had heart attacks after new research shows beta-blockers may be anywhere from useless to harmful in certain cases. The ...

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 ...

Q. I’ve read that beta blockers are being used for anxiety. I was given metoprolol for stage fright. It lasts only 12 hours and is better than atenolol, which lasts for 24 hours. I am an author. When ...