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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beta blockers—drugs commonly prescribed for a range of cardiac conditions, including heart attacks—provide no clinical benefit for patients who have had an uncomplicated myocardial infarction with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A class of drugs called beta-blockers — used for decades as a first-line treatment after a heart attack— doesn’t benefit the vast ...

Half of all patients discharged from hospital after a heart attack are treated with beta-blockers unnecessarily, new study suggests. Half of all patients discharged from hospital after a heart attack ...

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 ...