More Heart Drug & Medication News

• Heart Drug May Be a Cancer Fighter

  January 7 (HealthDay News) -- Digoxin, a drug used for many years to treat irregular ...

• Dubious Drugs, Tainted Foods Top 2008's Health Stories

  December 31 (HealthDay News) -- Doubts over the safety of diabetes and heart treatments, disappointing ...

• Optimal Warfarin Dosing Improves Anticoagulation Control

  December 30 (HealthDay News) -- While the anticoagulant warfarin can be highly effective in preventing ...

• Guide on Blood Thinner Now Available in Spanish

  December 29 (HealthDay News) -- A new pamphlet has been published to help Spanish-speaking patients ...

• Statins Help Prevent Delirium After Heart Surgery

  December 26 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly patients who take cholesterol-lowering statins before cardiac surgery may ...

• Gene Ups Risk for Those on Blood-Thinner Plavix

  December 22 (HealthDay News) -- A gene variation can make younger heart attack patients more ...

• Clot Dissolver Doesn't Boost Survival in Cardiac Arrest Patients

  December 17 (HealthDay News) -- German doctors thought that giving the clot-dissolving drug tenecteplase (TKNase) ...

• TriLipix Approved to Help Lower Cholesterol

  December 16 (HealthDay News) -- The Abbott Laboratories drug TriLipix (fenofibric acid) has been approved ...

• Statin Use Doesn't Inhibit Lymphoma Drug Therapy

  December 9 (HealthDay News) -- Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs don't interfere with rituximab, a medication used ...

• Report Confirms Source of Contaminated Heparin

  December 3 (HealthDay News) -- A final report on the deadly contamination of the blood ...

• Blood Pressure Pill Combo More Effective Than Diuretics

  December 3 (HealthDay News) -- A pill that contains two blood pressure drugs was more ...

• Another Study Warns of Risk from Cardiac Surgery Drug

  December 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new study casts more doubt on the safety of ...

• Generic Heart Drugs as Good as Brand-Name Counterparts

  December 2 (HealthDay News) -- Brand-name drugs used to treat cardiovascular disease are no better ...

• Promacta Approved for Rare Blood Disorder

  November 24 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Promacta (eltrombopag) ...

• Education Program Spurs Blacks to Take Blood Pressure Meds

  November 12 (HealthDay News) -- A patient education program that included encouragement and occasional gifts ...

• Beta Blocker Use Questioned in Non-Heart Surgery

  November 10 (HealthDay News) -- An analysis of 33 studies on drugs known as beta ...

• Study Upholds Stopping Plavix Use Before Surgery

  November 10 (HealthDay News) -- Someone who has taken the clot-preventing drug Plavix less than ...

• Aspirin Doesn't Guard Diabetics Against Heart Disease

  November 9 (HealthDay News) -- Two large studies released Sunday cast doubt on the cardiac ...

• Written Instructions Cut Bleeding Risk for Blood Thinner Use

  November 8 (HealthDay News) -- Giving patients written and verbal instructions on proper use of ...