Digoxin, a drug derived from the foxglove plant, is one of the oldest and most widely used treatments for a variety of cardiac conditions. For example, it can regularize the heartbeat in many who have ...

Digoxin, a drug commonly used to treat heart conditions, was associated with a 72 percent higher rate of death among adults with newly diagnosed systolic heart failure. Digoxin, a drug commonly used ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Data from the ATRIA-CVRN study suggest an association between digoxin and increased risk for death and ...

The heart failure drug digoxin, used less and less since it “failed” in its 1997 clinical trial, may do something no drug has achieved since: reduce by 34 percent the chances that heart failure ...

UB researchers have identified for the first time an enzyme in the foxglove plant that is responsible for the production of compounds needed to make the heart failure drug digoxin. The breakthrough ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Patients with atrial fibrillation who used digoxin at baseline in the ROCKET AF trial had increased risks for all-cause mortality, vascular mortality and sudden cardiac death. “Our ...

Digoxin increases the risk of death and hospitalization in patients with atrial fibrillation. In patients with atrial fibrillation but no heart failure, digoxin increases the risk of death and ...

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 ...

SEVILLE, SPAIN — Weighing in on the current debate over whether the benefits of using digoxin are worth its perceived dangers in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and/or heart failure (HF), new ...

SAN FRANCISCO, California — Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) starting digoxin for the first time showed an independently significant jump in mortality over an average of one year compared with ...

The alert comes after a forensic examination of studies on the drug digoxin – used to treat some of the most severe types of heart disease. Evidence of its potentially catastrophic effects, that could ...

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