Science news articles about 'digitalis'

... or a more simpler strategy of rate-control (where two common drugs, beta-blockers and digitalis, are used to prevent rapid heart rates with no specific efforts to regularize the rhythm). The primary ...

Digitalis-based drugs like digoxin have been used for centuries to treat patients with irregular heart rhythms and heart failure and are still in use today. In the Dec. 16 issue of the Proceedings of ...

... spots and rings, beckoning bumblebees to crawl inside and pollinate them. Its Latin name is Digitalis purpurea; it has a long history of medical use, but it wasn't until the 18th century that its ...

Heart attack from a digitalis-laced martini and a kidney-transplant story line are largely fiction. "General Hospital"