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 ...

Dr. Deepak Bhatt answers the question: 'Why Do I Get Nitroglycerin Headaches?' — -- Question: Why do I get a headache when I take my nitroglycerin? Answer: A fair number of patients who take ...

Do you know whether to take your nitroglycerin tablets before, during, or after chest pain? And are there times when you shouldn’t take it at all? Nitroglycerin helps widen the blood vessels so more ...

Nitroglycerin’s talent for opening blood vessels, now frequently exploited by doctors treating people with angina or heart failure, was first observed in the 1860s when physicians studied side effects ...

For the last month, Nadia Awad, PharmD, and her ED team at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey have struggled with a shortage of nitroglycerin. "IV nitroglycerin is really our workhorse for ...

Treatment of prostate cancer using a very low dose of nitroglycerin may slow and even halt the progression of the disease without the severe side effects of current treatments, researchers have ...

Though nitroglycerin has been used as a heart medication for over 100 years, scientists have only just recently started looking at it in the lab In an ironic twist, researchers report that the classic ...