(CHICAGO) — Following a heart attack, patients often are prescribed a beta-blocker, a drug that takes some of the stress off the heart. But the dosing for this medication has remained controversial, ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients with heart failure, higher beta-blocker (BB) dose is associated with more improvements in outcomes than lower heart rate (HR), according to a study published online in ...

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. Beta blockers have long been included in the ...

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(HealthDay News) — Patients treated with low-dose beta-blockers after myocardial infarction may fare better than those given the standard dose, according to a study published in the Sept. 29 issue of ...

Other medical therapy options. The use of digoxin has not been shown to improve survival rates. 10 In the presence of atrial fibrillation, digoxin can be added after the beta-blocker dose has been ...

The question of whether to alter beta-blocker therapy in patients with asthma has been reviewed extensively in the medical literature. [1,2,3,4,5] Cardioselective (beta-1) beta-blockers are ...

When Lauren Perna’s beloved Chihuahua terrier, Tessie, was dying, Perna’s anxiety was so intense that she found herself gasping for air. On her doctor’s advice, she started micro-dosing propranolol, a ...