News tagged with beta blockers
Patients can safely skip pre-surgery stress tests and beta blockers
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Physicians should "throttle back" from routinely ordering stress tests and prescribing beta blockers to patients before non-cardiac surgeries, according to a report by the University of Michigan released online this week.
Carvedilol shown to have unique characteristics among beta blockers
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 20, 2009 |
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In a new study, researchers report that a class of heart medications called beta-blockers can have a helpful, or harmful, effect on the heart, depending on their molecular activity.
Coverage of inexpensive drugs may increase length and quality of life after heart attack
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Providing free medications to people after heart attack could add years to patients' lives at a relatively low cost for provincial governments, according to a new study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
Beta-blockers and stroke -- new insights into their use for older people
Aug 27, 2009 |
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A University of Leicester-led study may have uncovered the reason why Beta-blockers are less effective at preventing stroke in older people with high blood pressure, when compared to other drugs for high blood pressure.
New Way To Predict Drug Side Effects
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Predicting the side-effects of a drug is not simple task. The human body has more than 1,500 molecules that are known to be involved in various diseases, and often a drug designed to hit one of these targets will also hit ...
New asthma research opposes current drug treatment
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Just when the Food and Drug Administration is reconsidering the use of stimulants to treat asthma, a new research study offers further evidence to support a University of Houston professor's theory that an opposite approach ...
ACC/AHA revised guidelines for the perioperative use of beta blockers to minimize cardiac risk
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Cardiac complications around the time of noncardiac surgery are relatively common and can be serious. The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) today release a Focused Update to the ...
Two beta blockers found to also protect heart tissue
Sep 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly discovered chemical pathway that helps protect heart tissue can be stimulated by two of 20 common beta-blockers, drugs that are prescribed to millions of patients who have experienced heart failure.
Doctor-pharmacist partnership reduces hospitalization for heart failure
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Thinking "outside the medicine cabinet" is paying off in Australia, where a doctor-pharmacist partnership is reducing hospitalizations for heart failure — one of the most expensive conditions to treat — researchers report ...
Chronic kidney disease profoundly impacts quality of life
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) can significantly lessen patients' quality of life, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). Certain types of pati ...
Heart disease patients with previous blockages more likely to die
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Heart disease patients with previous atherosclerosis (fat deposits in the walls of the arteries) are more likely to die in the hospital and less likely to be treated with recommended therapies, researchers report in Circulation: Jo ...
Migraine prevention by targeting glutamate receptors?
Apr 29, 2009 |
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When migraine strikes, because of severe pain, often accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and sound, sufferers are effectively disabled for up to 72 hours. Since they are forced to stop what they are doing until ...
Angina: New drug gets right to the heart of the problem
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 07, 2009 |
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A compound designed to prevent chest pains in heart patients has shown promising results in animal studies, say scientists. In the second issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology to be published by Wiley-Blackwell, resear ...
