HealthDay News — About seven in 10 Americans with a history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) or stroke regularly take aspirin, according to a report published in the July 17 issue of the U.S. Centers ...

The following statement reflects the views of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. According to the Associations volunteer President Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, M.D., Sc.M., FAHA, If ...

It was around 120 years ago that aspirin, one of the most widely used drugs in the world, was patented. However, the origins of this medicine, found in most everyone’s medicine cabinet, date to the ...

Women in middle-age having a history of preeclampsia have increased risk of stroke. Aspirin may reduce this risk, according to a new study led by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of ...

An aspirin a day was, for decades, believed to keep heart disease at bay, and older Americans out of the doctor’s office. But proposed recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force ...

More than 100 years after the invention of aspirin it is being used to treat an increasingly wide-ranging set of conditions. Here is a history of how the drug was created. More than 100 years after ...

As yet more good news about aspirin emerges, BBC News Online examines the history of this "wonderdrug". This week, it was revealed that aspirin may boost the chances of some lung cancer patients.

The daily use of aspirin to prevent CV events in patients lacking a history of CVD is linked to an increased likeliness of major bleeding, according to a meta-analysis published in the European Heart ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A history of NERD was the only significant predictor of increased risk for hypersensitivity to aspirin. The ...