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Taking aspirin to prevent a heart attack? Doctors warn stopping can pose serious risks.br/> CBS News July 21, 2011 Ryan Jaslow Doctors have long said taking daily low-dose aspirin helps prevent a myocardial infarction, or heart attack. But a new study warns these patients that they shouldn’t stop taking aspirin- or they could die. Spanish [...]
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It is difficult to find the research behind this article, but given that it is by the Mayo Clinic, it must be credible… What happens if you stop taking aspirin every day? You might be surprised to learn that stopping daily aspirin therapy can have a rebound effect that may increase your risk of heart [...]
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Similar to yesterday’s Mayo article about only taking aspirin if you have had a heart attack, Dr. McDougall conveys the same information, but in more detail. Note that these recent recommendations are a change from what previously recommended, that essentially everyone take preventative aspirin… (I would note however, that this still isn’t very tailorized science. [...]
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All of these posts about Plavix make one wonder about aspirin, which also works as an anti-coagulant.. (Again, nothing in this blog should be taken for medical advice. The purpose of the blog is to provide information and links so that the reader can make informed medical decisions.) Daily aspirin therapy: Understand the benefits and [...]
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This is an article written by Merrill Goozner, an independent journalist. Sure makes the whole industry looks suspicious (no surprise, of course). Yes, why not aspirin? About Mr. Goozer: In April 2004, the University of California Press published his first book, “The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs,” an exposé [...]
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It is very rare to hear a doctor so blunt about the effects of a drug. This kind of anecdotal information is very difficult to find. (Any markings in bold are mine, not those of Dr. Parks. (Again, the information reported in this blog is provided so that the reader can make informed choices; it [...]
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Even under high magnification, new drug benefits are vanishing By the end of the 20th century, modern medicine was fending off 190,000 deaths a year from otherwise fatal heart conditions. Funding poured into cardiovascular research, more than doubling from $3.8b in 1995 to $8.4b in 2005. Now from this richly oxygenated drug pipeline, two new [...]
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