An estimated 60 million scripts are dispensed for this type of beta blocker every year—but more than 17,000 bottles are now ...

A wearable mini-pump device that allows heart-failure patients to receive medication at home rather than in hospital has been ...

A heart shock may restore the heart’s rhythm and is a potential treatment for atrial fibrillation (AFib). Doctors also refer to heart shock as electrical cardioversion. In AFib, a person has an ...

Lasix (furosemide) is a diuretic medication that doctors commonly use to treat heart failure. Lasix is a type of medication known as a loop diuretic that doctors prescribe to treat heart failure, high ...

A low dose of digoxin ensures that people with heart failure are hospitalized and die less frequently. This emerges from three studies led by UMCG cardiologists Dirk Jan van Veldhuisen, Kevin Damman, ...