Carvedilol and metoprolol are both beta-blocker medications, which are a class of drugs used to treat various cardiovascular conditions like heart failure and hypertension (high blood pressure). These ...

Like all medicines, beta-blockers can cause side effects. Some of the most common ones include feeling tired, having cold ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My older friends and I talk about your column once in a while, and we all read it every day. Thank you. One thing we all wonder is, how do pills work? How does the medicine know where ...

A medication used for decades to treat hypertension and other cardiovascular issues might be able to halt aggressive “triple-negative” breast cancer’s spread, a new study shows. Researchers from ...

Dear D.A.: With a few exceptions, the medicine in the pills goes nearly everywhere in the body, but only “work” in specific locations. For example, if you take the blood pressure medicine atenolol, ...

Proteins that act like air traffic controllers, managing the flow of signals in and out of human cells, have been observed for the first time with unprecedented detail using advanced microscopy ...