For more than 130 years, doctors have prescribed nitroglycerin for relief of chest pain without a clear knowledge of how it actually worked. Now, not only have researchers from Howard Hughes Medical ...
When something restricts blood flow to the heart muscle, a person may experience intense chest pain that doctors call angina. People can use the drug nitroglycerin to relieve this pain. Most often, ...
When given for hours as a continuous dose, the heart medication nitroglycerin backfires -- increasing the severity of subsequent heart attacks, according to a study of the compound in rats. When given ...
THE value of sublingual administration of nitroglycerin for relief of attacks of angina pectoris is well established. Nitroglycerin has also been advocated as a prophylactic — before exercise and so ...