(CNN) — 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 ...

Researchers estimate that over 17.9 million people globally die each year from cardiovascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack. Now, a new study presented at the ...

A large 2025 trial found the standard post-heart-attack pill made no difference for patients with normal pumping function, ...

A medication millions of heart attack survivors take every day for the rest of their lives may not need to be taken forever, according to a major new study. The study found that going off ...

Among stable, relatively low-risk patients who had previously suffered a heart attack, discontinuing beta-blockers after at least one year was found to be non-inferior, or comparable, to continuing ...

Doctors are reassessing decades of standard treatment for patients who have had heart attacks after new research shows beta-blockers may be anywhere from useless to harmful in certain cases. The ...