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 ...

For decades, beta-blockers have been commonly prescribed as a standard treatment for adults who have had heart attacks with ...

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 ...

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.

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

In this analysis, researchers evaluated whether beta blocker use is associated with improved survival in patients with solid tumors.

Trial assessed outcomes of quitting therapy after 1 year among select MI survivors ...

The role of long-term beta-blocker therapy after a myocardial infarction in patients without left ventricular systolic dysfunction or heart failure is unclear in the era of contemporary ...

What recommendations would you offer to clinicians regarding shared decision-making with patients regarding this issue? Dr Granger: Based on the REDUCE-AMI trial results, I would recommend that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration: Cat O'Neil/The Guardian (Illustration: Cat O'Neil/The Guardian) I first took beta blockers two years ago, when I was ...

Credit: Getty Images A discussion of the use of beta-blocker therapy following AMI, with Christopher Granger, MD, Gregg Fonarow, MD, and Carlin S Long, MD. Beta blockers have long been included in the ...