What is nitroglycerin used for? Nitroglycerin is commonly used to treat and prevent chest pain caused by a type of heart disease (coronary artery disease). Nitroglycerin may also be used for other ...

Continuous transdermal nitroglycerin did not lead to sustained improvements in hot flashes for perimenopausal and postmenopausal women, the randomized FRAN trial showed. Over 5 weeks, the estimated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When something restricts blood flow to the heart muscle, a person may experience intense chest pain that doctors call angina. People can use the drug nitroglycerin to relieve this pain. Most often, ...

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 ...

Emergency departments across the United States are facing a shortage of intravenous nitroglycerin, a drug commonly used to treat heart complications. Here are six alternatives to intravenous ...

Overview: Rectal nitroglycerin is an ointment that is used on the skin in your anal region to reduce pain in that area caused by a skin tear. The most common side effect of rectal nitroglycerin is a ...