THE value of sublingual administration of nitroglycerin for relief of attacks of angina pectoris is well established. Nitroglycerin has also been advocated as a prophylactic — before exercise and so ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHEST discomfort associated with paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea is frequently quite distressing, and some patients describe this discomfort as pain. 1 During the past several years, we have noted in the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today ordered Glenmark Generics of Mahwah, N.J., and Konec Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., to stop marketing unapproved nitroglycerin tablets. The tablets are placed under ...

Women have long searched for remedies for the bothersome hot flashes that often come with menopause. In a novel investigation, researchers at UC San Francisco tested the benefits of continuously ...

The FDA issued warning letters yesterday to two companies, Glenmark Generics of Mahwah, N.J. and Konec Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., warning them to cease distribution of unapproved sublingual nitroglycerin ...

Before the advent of nitroglycerin 130-odd years ago, the only explosive in use was black gunpowder. The Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel developed nitroglycerin, and its spin-off, dynamite, at a ...

Ascanio Sobrero, born on this day in 1812, invented nitroglycerin. He just didn’t see any use for it—even though it became, in the hands of Alfred Nobel—yes, that Nobel—the active ingredient in ...