Too many people still take low-dose daily aspirin. What you should know.
For decades, taking low-dose aspirin every day was widely recommended as an easy way to prevent heart attacks and strokes. But that advice has changed.
Daily low-dose aspirin has its benefits — and risks. Here's how to figure out if you should take it or skip it.
Millions of people take a daily low-dose aspirin, even though they are not at risk of heart disease. (Getty Images) Here's ...
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Minorities, Medicaid Users Still Take Daily Aspirin
The prevalence of daily low-dose aspirin use fell significantly after the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association narrowed ...
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Low-Dose Aspirin and Head Injury in Elders
As low-dose prophylactic aspirin therapy becomes common among older people, potential risks that are associated with such treatment assume increasing importance. In particular, some clinicians are ...
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This drug can lower risk of colorectal cancer by 18%
Study of 107,000 participants demonstrates regular aspirin use significantly reduces colorectal cancer risk, especially in ...
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Famotidine for the Prevention of Peptic Ulcers in Users of Low-Dose Aspirin (FAMOUS)
Description The goal of the trial was to evaluate treatment with famotidine compared with placebo among patients taking low-dose aspirin. Hypothesis Famotidine would be more effective in ...
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Aspirin Therapy: Right for Your Heart?
Sandra Rose, a nurse in Raleigh, NC, started taking a daily aspirin because "it seemed like a wonder drug," preventing heart attacks and strokes. "All the patients seemed to be on a low-dose ...