Nearly half of all adults in the U.S. have high blood pressure, or hypertension, according to the CDC. One of the most common ways to manage the condition, in addition to making lifestyle changes?

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 ...

Madrid, Spain – 30 August 2025: Beta-blocker therapy significantly reduced a composite endpoint of all-cause mortality and major adverse cardiovascular events compared with no beta-blocker therapy in ...

Doctors are reassessing decades of standard treatment for patients who have had heart attacks after new research shows beta-blockers may be anywhere from useless to harmful in certain cases. The ...

MADRID -- Beta-blockers may be relegated to a smaller role for secondary prevention after myocardial infarction (MI) in contemporary practice, based on the arrival of three new trials from Europe.

Current guideline recommendations for the use of beta-blockers after myocardial infarction without reduced ejection fraction are based on trials conducted before routine reperfusion, invasive care, ...

A meta-analysis of recent clinical trials evaluating β-blockers as treatment for patients with acute myocardial infarction ...

For decades, clinicians have routinely prescribed beta-blockers to patients recovering from acute myocardial infarction (MI). Two new randomized trials published in The New England Journal of Medicine ...

The evidence supporting beta-blocker therapy after myocardial infarction was established before the introduction of modern coronary reperfusion therapy and secondary prevention strategies. In an ...

MADRID — Taken together, two new randomized trials and a meta-analysis showed that beta-blockers following a myocardial infarction (MI) offer a relatively modest benefit in contemporary practice when ...

It seems like every few weeks, there’s a new “miracle fix” for anxiety trending on social media. The latest is a decades-old heart medication that more and more people are saying helps them stay calm ...