People who have had a heart attack may be able to safely discontinue beta-blocker use after a year if they are at low-risk ...

For decades, surviving a heart attack has come with a lifelong prescription: Stay on medications called beta-blockers to help protect your heart. But doctors are taking a closer look at whether ...

A new class of beta blockers designed to activate only when struck by specific wavelengths of light could allow doctors to switch drug activity on and off inside targeted tissues, potentially ...

Rendering a drug effective or ineffective in a flash at the appropriate location—this is the focus of research in photopharmacology. The goal is to develop drugs that can be switched on and off with ...

Among stable, relatively low-risk patients who had previously suffered a heart attack, discontinuing beta-blockers after at least one year was found to be non-inferior, or comparable, to continuing ...

Trial assessed outcomes of quitting therapy after 1 year among select MI survivors ...

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) By ...

April 1 (Reuters) – Advanced genetic testing could help erase significant disparities in breast cancer survival rates between ...

For many years, people who survived a heart attack were told to take beta-blockers for the rest of their lives. These ...

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