When Lauren Perna’s beloved Chihuahua terrier, Tessie, was dying, Perna’s anxiety was so intense that she found herself gasping for air. On her doctor’s advice, she started micro-dosing propranolol, a ...

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 ...

Beta-blockers provide no clinical benefit to post-MI patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction, according to a potentially paradigm-changing meta-analysis. The findings, published ...

The benefit of beta-blockers after myocardial infarction in patients with a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is unclear. We conducted a meta-analysis at the individual-patient level ...

For 40 years, it has been the standard in post-heart attack health care, but a new study from the European Society of Cardiology is putting the usage of beta blockers in limbo. While the new study may ...

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 ...

Beta blockers, traditionally used to treat high blood pressure, have become the go-to medication for anxiety — but they are helpful in “limited situations,” an expert tells PEOPLE Cara Lynn Shultz is ...

Q. I’ve read that beta blockers are being used for anxiety. I was given metoprolol for stage fright. It lasts only 12 hours and is better than atenolol, which lasts for 24 hours. I am an author. When ...

Beta blockers are quickly becoming the hot new drug to combat anxiety. The medication, also known as propranolol, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1967 for the treatment of ...

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 ...

Tomas Jernberg's employer (Karolinska Institutet) has received a grant from MSD for a research project performed by Dr. Jernberg but not related to this article. As a cardiologist, I frequently meet ...

Share on Pinterest A common heart attack pill may not be helpful for some heart conditions, according to new research. Bibek Raj Giri/Getty Images Beta-blockers are a type of medication used after ...