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Weekly Dose: Digoxin, the heart medicine that may have given us Van Gogh's Starry Night

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageThe yellow in Van Gogh's Starry Night looks like symptoms of foxglove extract overdose. Wally Gobetz/Flickr

Digoxin is a drug used to treat heart failure and irregular heartbeats known as a “cardiac glycoside”. It is obtained from the leaves of the foxglove plant (Digitalis lanata) and is available in Australian as the brands Lanoxin and...

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