For more than 130 years, doctors have prescribed nitroglycerin for relief of chest pain without a clear knowledge of how it actually worked. Now, not only have researchers from Howard Hughes Medical ...

Alfred Nobel patented the dynamite 150 years ago on 25 November 1867 Ascanio Sobrero was ashamed of having discovered nitroglycerin, dynamite's main component, years before Nobel He thought it was too ...

The Central Pacific's best hope was a dangerous gamble: liquid nitroglycerin. The Central Pacific's best hope was a dangerous gamble: liquid nitroglycerin. Nitro was the most powerful explosive ever ...

Nitroglycerin destroys lives by exploding, and saves them by stopping heart problems. How can it do both? Most moviegoers have watched a scene or two where nitroglycerin has been used to blow the ...

When something restricts blood flow to the heart muscle, a person may experience intense chest pain that doctors call angina. People can use the drug nitroglycerin to relieve this pain. Most often, ...

When given for hours as a continuous dose, the heart medication nitroglycerin backfires -- increasing the severity of subsequent heart attacks, according to a study of the compound in rats. When given ...