beta-blocker

Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve—1970s Style

This dapper bee from 1977 advertised an NHLBI-sponsored multicenter, randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled trial designed to test the benefits of beta-blockers for people who had had a heart attack. The study was called the Beta-Blocker Heart Attack Trial (BHAT). Ah, you say—that’s why the bee in the hat!

Yellow pin with illustration of a bee holding a flower and wearing a top-hat with the word “BHAT”