DEAR DR. ROACH: My older friends and I talk about your column once in a while, and we all read it every day. Thank you. One thing we all wonder is, how do pills work? How does the medicine know where ...
Carvedilol and metoprolol are both beta-blocker medications, which are a class of drugs used to treat various cardiovascular conditions like heart failure and hypertension (high blood pressure). These ...
Dear D.A.: With a few exceptions, the medicine in the pills goes nearly everywhere in the body, but only “work” in specific locations. For example, if you take the blood pressure medicine atenolol, ...