Dr. Mehra answers the question: 'Safety Of Viagra, Nitroglycerin, Angina?' — -- Question: If I get an attack of angina during sexual intercourse and I have taken Viagra within the last 24 hours, ...

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 ...

Nitroglycerin destroys lives by exploding, and saves them by stopping heart problems. How can it do both? Most moviegoers have watched a scene or two where nitroglycerin has been used to blow the ...

I found several crazy stories about nitroglycerin's (mis)use in East Central Indiana during the gas and oil boom of 1886-1910. One story involves Muncie’s ...

Giving transdermal nitroglycerin to stroke patients in the ambulance within 3 hours of symptom onset was not shown to be of any benefit in the MR ASAP trial. The trial was presented on September 1 at ...

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. Mandeep Mehra answers the question: 'Is Viagra Safe With Nitroglycerin?' — -- Question: Is sildenafil (Viagra) safe with nitroglycerin tablets? Answer: Well, Viagra is not safe at all in the ...

The Nobel Prizes for 2016 will be announced starting this Monday, October 3. And in the world of science, speculation about who will win has kicked into high gear. With all the excitement, it’s easy ...

When given for hours as a continuous dose, the heart medication nitroglycerin backfires -- increasing the severity of subsequent heart attacks, according to a study of the compound in rats. When given ...

Doctors in the United States wrote more than four million prescriptions last year for nitroglycerin tablets, heart drugs placed under the tongue to reduce the chest pain angina or to stop a heart ...

Nitroglycerin, which is used to treat heart pain, has been difficult to come by recently, joining a long list of drugs that have faced shortfalls in the last few years. "It is frustrating because this ...

Alfred Nobel patented the dynamite 150 years ago on 25 November 1867 Ascanio Sobrero was ashamed of having discovered nitroglycerin, dynamite's main component, years before Nobel He thought it was too ...