Introduction Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) is a stress-induced catecholamine acute myocardial dysfunction in the absence of ...

Background Since the 1960s, beta blockers have been used to treat hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM), a genetic disorder causing abnormal heart muscle thickening. This systematic review ...

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 ...

Doctors at a gender clinic in California doled out puberty blockers to kids as young as 9 — despite reportedly admitting behind the scenes that some research backing gender-affirming care for children ...

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 ...

Over the past month or so, many YouTubers have been reporting major drops to their video view counts. Theories have run wild, but there’s one explanation involving ad blockers that makes the most ...

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 its way into dressing rooms, ...

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech ...

Share on Pinterest A common heart attack pill may not be helpful for some heart conditions, according to new research. Bibek Raj Giri/Getty Images Beta-blockers are a type of medication used after ...

Beta-blocker therapy significantly reduced a composite endpoint of all-cause mortality, new myocardial infarction (MI) and heart failure (HF) compared with no beta-blocker therapy in the subgroup of ...

In two large studies of heart attack survivors, beta-blocker drugs benefited those with mildly impaired heart function Contradictory trial results seen in patients without heart dysfunction More data ...

Two new studies point in opposite directions. 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 ...