This 10-cent heart drug cuts hospitalizations by 25%
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This 10-cent heart drug cuts hospitalizations by 25%
A centuries-old heart drug costing less than ten cents a day could help keep heart-failure patients out of the hospital. New research suggests low-dose digoxin can reduce heart-failure hospitalizations by about 25%, potentially paving the way for its return as a major treatment.
'Low-dose Digoxin may cut heart failure hospitalisations’ - Pakistan Observer
AMSTERDAM – The low-dose digoxin may help reduce hospitalisations among patients with heart failure and could lower the risk of death, according to three new studies led by cardiologists at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) in the Netherlands. The researchers said the findings could potentially influence future treatment guidelines and renew interest in digoxin, an older and relatively inexpensive medicine. Heart failure is a seriou…
Digitalis is a plant that grows along Alpine trails: it has purple bell-shaped flowers and is toxic to most animals that touch it. From this plant, in the eighteenth century, an English doctor named William Withering extracted something that the human heart, strangely, seemed to appreciate. The compound is called digoxin, and in 2026, after thirty years of being virtually under the radar, it was resurfaced in Nature Medicine and JAMA with a rand…
Recent research indicates that digoxin, a drug used for centuries, can reduce hospitalizations of heart failure patients by 25%. Studies conducted by cardiologists at the Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (UMCG) suggest that administering low doses of the drug can significantly improve the quality of life of these patients. Research reveals the effectiveness of digoxin in heart failure patients. Three studies conducted by UMCG cardiologists…
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