The molecules of a highly toxic plant, known for its bell-shaped purple and pink flowers and found in some home gardens, have ...

Foxglove, a flowering plant long feared for its toxicity, became an unlikely source of a widely studied heart drug. Digoxin, a cardiac glycoside associated in modern medicine with Digitalis species ...

Senior researcher Dr Ali Ahmed (University of Alabama, Birmingham) told heartwire that the differing conclusions are the result of two different methodologies used to analyze the data. He said their ...

Patients with rheumatic heart disease who took the heart failure drug digoxin were 18% less likely to die or experience ...

The benefit of digoxin was driven by reduced risk of new-onset or worsening HF hospitalizations, just like its benefit in ...

Successful test in breast cancer patients: the active agent digoxin, a cardiac medication, dissolves clusters of circulating breast cancer cells in the blood, thus reducing the risk of metastases ...