Dr. Cindy Grines answers the question: 'Why Should I Take My Beta Blocker?' — -- Question: I hate taking my beta blocker. It makes me feel tired. Why should I take it? Answer: Well, a lot of ...

For 40 years, it has been the standard in post-heart attack health care, but a new study from the European Society of Cardiology is putting the usage of beta blockers in limbo. While the new study may ...

First-year medical students at Georgetown University's School of Medicine were required to take a class last year teaching that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and irreversible surgery are the ...

The benefit of beta-blockers after myocardial infarction in patients with a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is unclear. We conducted a meta-analysis at the individual-patient level ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Beta-blocker therapy did not improve survival beyond 1 year after an MI, although a dose-dependent effect was ...

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 ...

On Sunday, Robert Downey Jr. took home a best supporting actor Golden Globe for "Oppenheimer," but it was a throwaway line in his speech that got attention on social media: "Yeah, yeah, I took a ...

Most trials that have shown a benefit of beta-blocker treatment after myocardial infarction included patients with large myocardial infarctions and were conducted in an era before modern ...