" A daily aspirin tablet may help prevent bowel cancer, a study suggests. Oxford University found it cut cases by a quarter and deaths by more than a third in a review of 14,000 patients. Aspirins are already widely used to help protect people against strokes and heart...
Healthy people who take aspirin to prevent heart failure and heart attacks are putting themselves at risk, according to research conducted by British scientists. Millions of people take aspirin daily to keep their arteries unclogged - but no proof exists that this actually...
Aspirin is derived from willow bark and has been used for thousands of years to treat pain and inflammation. It's now used to help reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke and this latest report show that it can...
created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 2 years ago 298 views | 24 recommendations | 4 comments
It seems that humans are not so different from plants. We may reach for some aspirin when we are under the weather and it turns out that plants need the same thing when they're in distress. "according to new research, sending a form of the compound airborne to signal a health...
In a new study released today, it has been found that plants respond by producing an amount of a chemical form of aspirin. The study was conducted by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research...
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"KILLER drug ecstasy is safer than ASPIRIN, top cop Richard Brunstrom claimed yesterday.
He also repeated his call for Class A substances like heroin and cocaine to be LEGALISED.
The North Wales chief...
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"Women who take low to moderate doses of aspirin have a reduced risk of death from any cause, especially heart disease-related deaths, according to a new study published on Monday.
Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston examined...
"The Food and Drug Administration yesterday proposed mandatory labeling for over-the-counter painkillers aspirin, acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
The new warning labels would apply to drugs such as Johnson &...
created by Edmund Jenks | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 1353 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"The following is a true-to-life scenario described by a doctor. It reflects an all-too-frequent problem.
THE whole family was worried. Now even the doctor was too. "If his bleeding doesn't stop soon," the doctor said, "we may have to consider a blood transfusion."
The man...