Beta-blockers - more spin means more deaths - If you go to your doctor with high blood pressure, it’s very likely he’ll give you a drug called a beta-blocker. For the past 10 years, it’s been cons...

Beta-blockers - more spin means more deaths - If you go to your doctor with high blood pressure, it’s very likely he’ll give you a drug called a beta-blocker. For the past 10 years, it’s been cons...

Beta blockers - the side effects - Q:My mother collapsed recently after having bouts of dizziness. After numerous hospital tests they now say it was stress. However, they immediately...

Blood pressure drugs linked with cancer - Several classes of drugs including diuretics and antihypertensives (for lowering of blood pressure) are suspected as being possible causes of cancer o...

Beta blockers are no better than a sugar pill - Although beta blockers have been used for over 30 years to treat high blood pressure in elderly people, new analysis has discovered that the drugs are...

Case study : beta blockers - I have high blood pressure and was given a beta blocker drug by my GP last September. I was assured there would be no side effects. ... ...

High blood pressure drugs overprescribed - Drugs for high blood pressure may be overprescribed, if the results of a review of the latest way of measuring hypertension are anything to go by. ...

Cheaper drugs better than calcium blockers - Cheaper antihypertensive drugs work better than expensive calcium channel blockers, according to a new metaanalysis carried out as a joint effort by i...