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Blood is a specialized bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances to the body's cells (in animals) – such as nutrients and oxygen – and transports waste products away from those...

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Beta Blockers, Widely Used For Decades, Scrutinized For Effectiveness, Link To Diabetes

First developed in the 1950s, beta blockers have been a mainstay in medicine for decades, used to treat everything from heart disease to stage fright to glaucoma. But some older classes of beta block...

Expert: Time to break the beta blocker habit?

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) Millions of people take beta blockers for everything from heart disease to stage fright, from treating glaucoma to preventing migraines. But not all beta blockers are...

Beta-blockers May Lower Dementia Risk

Taking beta-blocker drugs may cut the risk of dementia, a trial in 774 men suggests. The medication is used to treat high blood pressure, a known risk factor for dementia. In the study, which was pr...

When Should We Use Beta-Blockers?

In the aftermath of REACH, Henry Black, MD, talks to Sripal Bangalore, MD, about how to use beta-blockers. Medscape Cardiology

Beta Blockers May Not Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes

Effectiveness of Beta Blockers Questioned in New Study

Making headway on beta-blockers and sleep

Over 20 million people in the United States take beta-blockers, a medication commonly prescribed for cardiovascular issues, anxiety, hypertension and more. Many of these same people also have trouble...

Beta Blockers of No Use in Stable CAD Patients

New trials of beta blockers need to be conducted in the era of contemporary PCI and medical therapy to better define the types of CAD patients who will benefit from this drug class, say researchers....

All Beta-Blockers Not Created Equal (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Compared with other beta-blockers, carvedilol may lead to better outcomes in patients with heart failure and acute myocardial infarction, a meta-analysis showed.

The role of vasodilating beta-blockers in patients with complicated hypertension: focus on nebivolol.

Despite their proven mortality and morbidity outcomes benefits, beta-blockers remain substantially underused in patients with cardiac conditions. Reluctance to prescribe beta-blockers may be owing to...

Current Place of Beta-Blockers in the Treatment of Hypertension.

Hypertension represents the most common cardiovascular risk factor, affecting more than 25% of the adult population in developed societies. Although beta-blockers have been previously shown to effecti...

One size does not fit all: the role of vasodilating beta-blockers in controlling hypertension as a means of reducing cardiovascular and stroke risk.

Beta-blockers have played a key role in the management of hypertension-related cardiovascular disease for decades, and continue to be recommended as a mainstay of therapy in national guidelines statem...

Quality of information sources about mental disorders: a comparison of Wikipedia with centrally controlled web and printed sources.

BACKGROUND: Although mental health information on the internet is often of poor quality, relatively little is known about the quality of websites, such as Wikipedia, that involve participatory informa...

Variations in Pharmacology of beta-Blockers May Contribute to Heterogeneous Results in Trials of Perioperative beta-Blockade.

BACKGROUND:: Randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses provide conflicting guidance on the role of beta-adrenergic receptor blockers (beta-blockers) in reducing perioperative complications. We hy...