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.

A key U.S. panel is touching off what promises to be a firestorm by recommending men and women between 50 and 69 take low-dose aspirin to lower heart, stroke and colon-cancer risk. Thomas Burton ...

Michael Mosley talks to two experts with very different opinions on whether healthy people, who haven’t had a heart attack, should be taking a daily 75mg dose of aspirin. Professor Peter Elwood ...

"All the patients seemed to be on a low-dose aspirin," 63-year ... So if clots cause cardiovascular disease, and aspirin helps prevents clots, taking aspirin should be a no-brainer, right?

110 patients were taking prophylactic low-dose aspirin, and 121 were not. Falls were responsible for 86% of injuries. The prevalence of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage, as determined by head ...

Regardless, 57% of people between ages 50 and 80 without a history of cardiovascular disease are still regularly taking low-dose aspirin, according to a study published March 2024. The report ...

Immediate administration of aspirin after ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) reduces the risk of vascular events, but the optimum dose in this setting is unknown. Berger et al.

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 ...

Only take daily aspirin if your doctor recommends it, they advise. Aspirin is best known as a painkiller and is sometimes also taken to help bring down a fever. But daily low-dose (75mg ...

Alternative regimen in case of intolerable headaches: switch to 1 cap at bedtime and low-dose aspirin in AM; return to usual regimen as soon as possible, usually within 1 week. Take one cap in the ...