I first took beta blockers two years ago, when I was asked to give a eulogy. Terrible at public speaking on a good day, let alone at a funeral, my first instinct was to refuse to do it. I had made a ...

Several celebs have recently mentioned beta blockers to quell anxiety.

A new meta-analysis finds no clear long-term cardiovascular benefit from beta-blockers after myocardial infarction in ...

Heart disease has been the leading cause of death in the U.S. for 100 years, according to the American Heart Association’s 2024 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics report. For decades, beta-blockers ...

Beta blockers are quickly becoming the hot new drug to combat anxiety. The medication, also known as propranolol, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1967 for the treatment of ...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) affects approximately 4 million individuals in the United States with 500,000 new cases diagnosed each year. [1] Previously, beta-blockers were absolutely ...

Credit: Getty Images. A discussion of the use of beta-blocker therapy following AMI, with Christopher Granger, MD, Gregg Fonarow, MD, and Carlin S Long, MD. The role of beta-blockers after acute ...

A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds beta blockers are not needed after a heart attack if heart-attack survivors are taking ACE inhibitors and statins. The study is ...

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 YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with breast cancer who take common blood pressure drugs may have better odds of surviving the disease, according to two preliminary studies. In one study, women ...

Beta-blockers may fight the progression of triple-negative breast cancer, researchers have found Getty Beta blockers — a commonly prescribed blood pressure medication — may be useful in stopping the ...