About one in ten pregnant women are affected by a common medical disorder called hypertension. Examples of hypertensive ...

Women with severe preeclampsia who took nifedipine once daily during labor and delivery were less likely to need fast-acting medicine to control their blood pressure during labor, according to a study ...

Endpoints for safety were the combined rate of death, MI, and disabling stroke. A total of 7665 patients recruited at 291 centers in 19 countries were randomized and followed for a mean of 4.9 years.

Calgary, AB - Researchers are reporting that the calcium channel blocker nifedipine appears to increase the rate of synaptic transmission through rat brain tissue in experiments in vitro. Their ...