Aspirin Heart Attack

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  Low-Dose Aspirin May Cause More Harm Than Benefit For Some, Say New Rules

  New recommendations on the use of low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke say the blood thinner's risks may outweigh its benefits, breaking from more than 30 years of widely accepted medical guidance.

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  Australian study: Aspirin Doesn't Reduce Heart Attack Risk

  Head of Monash University's Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, John McNeil said that the trial was long overdue and he hopes that the results will help inform prescribing doctors who have long been uncertain whether to recommend the drug to otherwise healthy patients.

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  Aspirin After Mini-Stroke Dramatically Reduces Further Risk

  Taking aspirin immediately after minor strokes could substantially reduce the risk of major strokes in patients who have minor 'warning' events, a team of European researchers has found.

• US Drug Regulator Questions Use of Aspirin to Prevent First Heart Attack

  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday questioned the value of taking aspirin to try to ward off a first heart attack or stroke in people who have never had cardiovascular problems.

• US FDA Questions Use of Aspirin to Prevent First Heart Attack

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday questioned the value of taking aspirin to try to ward off a first heart attack or stroke in people who have never had cardiovascular problems.

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  Low-dose aspirin lowers cancer risk

  Low doses of aspirin taken to lower the risk of heart attack and stroke also lower the risk of colon cancer.

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  Ginkgo no help for heart

  The popular herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba does not appear to prevent heart attacks and strokes in older adults, but may help lower their risk of blocked arteries in the legs.

• Aspirin not beneficial for aged

  Doctor's often recommend a daily dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks or stroke. But bleeding risks might counteract the benefits of the drug in aged.

• One drug safer than two after stroke

  Following a stroke, treatment with the anti-clotting drug clopidogrel can help prevent future strokes and heart attack. Recent research shows that clopidogrel doesn't work any better when given with the blood-thinner aspirin and, in fact, the risk of bleeding complications is increased.

• Deaths from heart disease reduced by preventive drugs

  More than 50 percent of deaths and disability from heart disease and strokes, which together kill more than 12 million people worldwide each year, can be halved. It can be done by a combination of simple, cost effective national efforts and individual actions to reduce major risk factors.

• Warfarin superior to aspirin in heart attacks

  Recent study has shown that the clot-fighting drug warfarin, alone or combined with aspirin, may work better than aspirin alone in preventing further cardiac problems after a heart attack.

• Early aspirin in heart attacks

  Patients who have had a heart attack are more likely to survive if they take aspirin BEFORE they take 'clot-busting agents' which are medicines that dissolve blood clots in the coronary arteries rather than in the reverse order. According to researchers of Sheba Medical Centre in Tel-Hashomer, Israel although it is not clear why the order makes a ...