Background Since the 1960s, beta blockers have been used to treat hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM), a genetic ...

Aficamten treatment was associated with significant improvements in exercise capacity and symptoms compared with metoprolol in patients with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), ...

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 ...

These blood-pressure-lowering drugs can calm the rapid heartbeat, shaky voice and trembling hands that can wreck a ...

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 ...

New American guidelines for chronic coronary disease (CCD) modify management considerations for a heterogeneous group that includes people with or without angina, a history of coronary ...

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 ...

US actor Robert Downey Jr. poses in the press room with the award for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture for "Oppenheimer" during the 81st annual Golden Globe ...

A new study out of Europe has called into question the effectiveness of beta blockers, one of the most frequently prescribed drugs in the U.S.

ATLANTA — Beta-blockers have been a mainstay of therapy for patients who have revascularization after an acute myocardial infarction (MI), but people who have had smaller MIs and survive with ...