Amyl nitrate can be given via inhalation to reduce afterload for diagnostic purposes in the cardiac catheterization laboratory to invoke an LV outflow tract gradient in hypertrophic obstructive ...

Dr. David Gortler is a pharmacologist, pharmacist, and senior fellow in public health policy and regulation with the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. He is a former ...

A Board of Supervisors panel has recommended that the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the district attorney's office revive health warnings about amyl nitrate, a chemical inhalant used ...

A popular party drug that has for years proliferated around nightclubs and music festivals is now outlawed in Louisiana. Act 248 bans businesses in the state from selling nitrous oxide and other ...

A young woman has admitted spiking someone's drink with poison and could be facing prison. Paige Myers put amyl nitrate, widely known as the inhalant drug 'poppers', into another woman's drink in ...