For decades, surviving a heart attack has come with a lifelong prescription: Stay on medications called beta-blockers to help protect your heart. But doctors are taking a closer look at whether ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you experience frequent migraine attacks, you may already know that prevention is the best medicine. One of the first medications your doctor is likely to prescribe for preventing your next attack ...

Some of the most commonly used medications fall under the class of β-adrenergic receptor antagonists, typically referred to as beta-blockers. Nearly one in 10 adults in the United States are ...

In stable patients without heart failure, discontinuing beta-blockers 1 year after a heart attack was noninferior to ...

Among stable, relatively low-risk patients who had previously suffered a heart attack, discontinuing beta-blockers after at ...

The results run counter to ABYSS but align with other data showing beta-blockers shouldn’t continue indefinitely after MI.

For over four decades, many heart attack survivors have been sent home with a prescription for beta-blockers, which are drugs that impact the effects of hormones and adrenaline on the heart and blood ...