Largely dismissed heart failure drug may help solve costly problem for medicare and hospitals
Monday, March 11, 2013 - 21:30
in Health & Medicine
The heart failure drug digoxin, used less and less since it “failed” in its 1997 clinical trial, may do something no drug has achieved since: reduce by 34 percent the chances that heart failure patients will be admitted to the hospital within 30 days of first taking it.