Taking ‘baby aspirin' doses daily cuts the heightened risk of bowel cancer in half in those with Lynch Syndrome, a genetic ...

Around 1 in 6 older adults take aspirin as their primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease – despite stricter ...

Drug repurposing is undervalued, but it offers potential benefits for patients and healthcare systems, argue Ruth Langley and colleagues Drug repurposing involves finding new indications for ...

With all the painkillers out there, we sometimes forget one that has been around forever: aspirin! It has been called the ...

Bleeding events occurred substantially less often with the lower dose of aspirin, reported John Burn, MD, of Newcastle ...

Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD There are many types and combinations of drugs used to treat a myocardial infarction (MI), also known as a heart attack. These drugs can help prevent blood ...

They used several Danish registers to identify 313,508 older adults (median age, 73.1 years; 57.7% women) who redeemed their first low-dose aspirin prescription (75 mg or 100 mg) for the primary ...

“The typical dosage for low-dose aspirin therapy is 81 milligram (mg) per day, commonly referred to as baby aspirin,” says Raj Dasgupta, MD, an ABIM quadruple-board-certified physician ...

Low-dose aspirin may treat flu-induced blood vessel inflammation during pregnancy, thereby improving blood flow to the placenta. The corresponding study was published in Frontiers in Immunology. "This ...

In an analysis of more than 3,100 older adults, low-dose aspirin administered for 3 years did not affect the incidence or progression of age-related macular degeneration, according to study ...

Use of daily low-dose aspirin for 3 years didn't prevent age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in older adults, according to a secondary analysis of the randomized ASPREE trial. Of the 3,171 ...