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.

I take 8-10 pills a day, including two over-the-counter medications. I take four or five in the morning and four or five in the evening. My question is, how effective are these medications if they are ...

The recommended daily dose is 40 mg Pravachol with either 81 mg or 325 mg buffered aspirin. The daily dose of Pravachol is then titrated to achieve desired cholesterol levels. The drug can be ...

Gestational hypertension, or high blood pressure developed during the latter half of pregnancy, is becoming a more common complication as the average childbearing age for women has increased. Trends ...

Treating patients with aspirin after completion of standard adjuvant therapy for colorectal cancer failed to significantly ...

Despite guideline recommendation changes, some patients are still taking a daily dose of aspirin for prevention of heart attack or stroke, according to a Jan. 13 The Washington Post report.

Patients received 325 mg aspirin daily, with or without 75 mg clopidogrel daily, for 1 year. Exclusion criteria included revascularization during the preceding 3 months, prolonged ST-segment ...

Aspirin should not be given to children under 16 because it can trigger a fatal brain and liver condition, the Government's drug safety body has declared. All aspirin products, including flu and ...

Other ongoing trials have even smaller sample sizes, except for the Add-Aspirin trial that aims to enroll 2600 patients with colorectal cancer but across three treatment groups (daily 100 mg or 300 mg ...