Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) are a common treatment for high blood pressure, chest pain, and certain heart rhythm problems. They work by slowing calcium’s movement into heart and blood vessel cells ...

Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors were linked to better pediatric chronic kidney disease outcomes compared with ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which inherited calcium channel mutations disrupt early brain development and predispose children to ...

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have shown how a minimal change in a single ion channel increases the sensitivity of sensory cells in the inner ear. Even soft sounds, such ...

A large study has raised concerns about a widely used type of blood pressure medicine and its possible link to an eye disease that can lead to blindness. The medicine is called calcium channel ...