£1-a-day heart wonder drug: Pill could save 10,000 lives every year in UK
A pill costing little more than £1 a day could save the lives of thousands suffering from a common heart condition.
British doctors are so impressed with the ‘breakthrough findings’ of a major study that they have pledged to start using the drug, ivabradine, to treat patients with heart failure straight away, even though it has not yet been licensed for the condition in the UK.
More than 700,000 people live with heart failure, which occurs when the organ becomes too weak to pump blood efficiently round the body.
This can lead to fatigue, breathlessness, increased heart rate and other serious complications.
Around 100,000 a year are thought to die from heart failure and many patients are repeatedly admitted to hospital because of their symptoms.
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