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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE value of sublingual administration of nitroglycerin for relief of attacks of angina pectoris is well established. Nitroglycerin has also been advocated as a prophylactic — before exercise and so ...