HealthDay News — Taking low-dose aspirin every day may lower the overall risk of cancer by 3%, mostly due to larger reductions seen in risk for colon and gastrointestinal tumors, according to research ...

With the aim of stroke prevention, older adults free of cardiovascular disease do not have anything to gain from taking low-dose aspirin on a daily basis and the risks outweigh any potential benefit, ...

Physicians should no longer routinely prescribe a daily regimen of low-dose aspirin for most patients at high risk of their first heart attack or stroke, according to draft guidelines the U.S.

It's one of the most well-known tenets of modern medicine: An aspirin a day keeps the doctor away. But according to a trio of studies published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine, a daily ...

(HealthDay News) — Patients with colorectal, breast, or prostate cancers may have better survival odds if they are on a low-dose aspirin regimen, according to a review published online in PLOS ONE.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The proportion of patients receiving low-dose aspirin increased from 7.65% in 2012 to 55.29% in 2022. A low-dose ...

It's said that new habits die easily but old habits die hard and that seems to be especially true when it comes to doctors who send their heart-attack patients home from the hospital with a directive ...

People with Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and an elevated risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) who took low-dose aspirin were less likely to experience a major cardiovascular event, including heart attack, ...

An independent panel of prevention experts now says adults 60 and older should not initiate a low-dose aspirin regimen to fend off heart disease, a long-prescribed practice. Aspirin could cause ...

New guidance issued Tuesday by an influential physician group no longer advises people 60 and older to adopt a daily aspirin regimen to prevent a first heart attack or stroke. Meanwhile, the new ...

If you’ve been taking a daily aspirin to help reduce your chances of a heart attack or stroke, you might be able to stop. Preliminary recommendations made last year by the U.S. Preventive Services ...

Q: I'm 68 and overweight by 45 pounds. Now that GLP-1s are going to be covered by Medicare, I think I will add that to my regimen -- I also take a statin. Does that make sense to you?-- Steve T., ...