The secret behind aspirin’s many uses lies in its main ingredient: salicylic acid. This powerful compound boasts anti-inflammatory, exfoliating, and mild antibacterial properties. These ...

For decades, taking low-dose aspirin (81 mg) every day was widely recommended as an easy way to prevent heart attacks and ...

Next time you ask someone for "aspirin, Advil, or whatever," think ... as commonly happens, people take too much or use them too often. Twenty-five percent of Americans who take over-the-counter ...

"The more risk factors that you have, the greater the chance that you will benefit" from daily aspirin, Jacobson tells WebMD. If the benefits do outweigh the risks for you, how much aspirin should ...

Studies have linked nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, naproxen and aspirin, to serious health effects.

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2012;10(4):433-439. This article suggests the need to reconsider the benefits of using aspirin in stroke prevention, especially in low-risk patients or patients not ...

But daily low-dose (75mg) aspirin is used to make the blood less sticky and can help to prevent heart attacks and stroke. Most strokes are caused by clots in the blood vessels of the brain but ...

We have used a measure of treatment benefit, the number-needed-to-treat (NNT), which is easily understood by both patient and physician. We have calculated the NNT for aspirin to prevent 1 DVT in ...

That figure compared to 44% in England and 63% in Wales. Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is a drug that has been used for many years as a painkiller. It has an anti-inflammatory action, and is used ...