When you have atrial fibrillation, the two upper chambers of your heart (atria) don't beat in sync with the two lower chambers (ventricles). This makes your heart beat out of rhythm and sometimes very ...

ATLANTA — The antibiotic clarithromycin prescribed for patients already taking antihypertensive calcium-channel blockers is associated with increases in hospitalization for acute kidney injury, ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My doctor put me on Norvasc 10 mg to keep my blood pressure normal. Since Norvasc is a calcium-channel-blocking medicine, can I still take my calcium and vitamin D-3 supplements? I was ...

Many people take medicine every day to help manage their health, especially as they get older. One common health problem is ...

Diverticulosis is a common condition where small pouches form in the wall of the intestine. It happens more often in older ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Does taking Norvasc or any calcium channel blocker reduce or destroy the calcium in the bones, eventually causing osteoporosis? — E.G. Answer: No. Calcium channel blockers, like ...

Substantial progress has been made over the past four decades in treating the symptoms of Parkinson disease, but treatments that slow its inexorable progression have remained tantalizingly out of ...

Voltage-gated calcium channels are of critical importance for nervous system function at the cellular and network levels. Aberrant calcium channel function is associated with a wide range of ...

Towards the end of 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) appeared on the scene, and practically shut down the world for the next several months. Since then, a slow and ...

Praxis Precision Medicines' ulixacaltamide (PRAX-944) is a potent and selective small molecule T-type Ca2+ channel blocker being developed for the potential treatment of essential tremor. ET is a ...

A compound -- one of 27 million screened in a library of potential new drugs -- reversed four types of chronic pain in animal studies, according to new research. The small molecule, which binds to an ...