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 ...

A medication millions of heart attack survivors take every day for the rest of their lives may not need to be taken forever, according to a major new study. The study found that going off ...

Researchers estimate that over 17.9 million people globally die each year from cardiovascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack. Now, a new study presented at the ...

Among stable, relatively low-risk patients who had previously suffered a heart attack, discontinuing beta-blockers after at least one year was found to be non-inferior, or comparable, to continuing ...

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 ...