A low-dose regimen of the blood pressure medication carvedilol demonstrated safety and efficacy in improving heart health of childhood cancer survivors, according to results of a multicenter phase 2b ...

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Findings from PREVENT-HF put to rest the idea that once remodeling in the heart's structure starts following anthracyclines that nothing can be done to treat it. Giving childhood cancer survivors the ...

A report details "deviations" during manufacturing of more than 135,000 packages, which could possibly contribute to other health problems.

Physicians at City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, in cooperation with the Children's Oncology Group (COG), have conducted the largest ...

Cardiac arrhythmias following myocardial infarction (MI) predict poor outcome. β-blockers are effective ventricular antiarrhythmics and angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors can prevent both ...

Although switching is usually safe and well tolerated, physician judgment concerning individual patient requirements must be maintained. The dose of the first- or second-generation β blocker that the ...