Congestive heart failure is a disease state distinguished by the regular presence of both renal and hepatic abnormalities in drug handling. One such abnormality involves flaws in the process of ...

The medications used to treat heart failure include three groups of drugs: diuretics, ACE inhibitors, and beta-blockers. The type of medication your doctor will recommend depends on the type of ...

A drug used to treat erectile dysfunction has been found by University of Manchester scientists to slow or even reverse the progression of heart failure in sheep. The British Heart Foundation funded ...

Heart failure is a disorder that predominantly affects older adults, with more than 50% of heart failure hospitalizations occurring in persons over 75 years of age. Unfortunately, most of the ...

For Heart Failure Patients, Salt Restriction Isn’t Always HelpfulRecent evidence suggests that salt restriction may not always be beneficial for patients with heart failure. A new review in the ...

Like other drugs for heart failure, SGLT2 inhibitors were originally developed to lower blood sugar levels in patients with diabetes. But this drug soon found its way into the heart of clinics that ...

Novartis’ heart failure drug serelaxin has failed in a late-stage trial, casting major doubts over the drug once seen as a potential blockbuster. Some analysts thought that sales of serelaxin ...

New research indicates that the heart benefits of semaglutide can extend to those with heart failure. In a recent analysis from the SELECT trial, researchers reported that semaglutide 2.4 mg ...

Our latest study shows that one of these erectile dysfunction drugs (Cialis) is very effective at treating a particular type of heart failure in sheep. Heart failure is a devastating condition that ...

The weight-loss drug tirzepatide reduced the risk of outcomes such as hospitalisation or death by 38 per cent for obese ...

However, there were fears the drug might be harmful to those with a certain type of heart failure. Now a new study suggests that, within the group that had heart disease, semaglutide worked just ...