Tag Archives: aspirin

+Cancer | March 21, 2012

Aspirin, a Wonder Drug? Studies Show It May Prevent Cancer

Many people take a daily aspirin to reduce their risk of heart attack, but now fresh evidence suggests that the over-the-counter pain reliever may be a powerful tool in cancer prevention as well.

+Heart Disease | January 11, 2012

Will an Aspirin Prolong Your Life? It Depends

By Laura Blue

Heart patients benefit from taking a low-dose aspirin daily, but the same same protection doesn’t extend to healthy people hoping to prevent a first heart attack

+Fertility | August 10, 2011

Review: Aspirin Doesn’t Increase Chances of Pregnancy With IVF

By Maia Szalavitz

Taking aspirin during fertility treatment does not increase women’s chances of conceiving, according to a new review of the research.

+Pharmaceuticals | May 24, 2011

This Isn’t Your Mother’s Bayer Aspirin

By Meredith Melnick

The name Bayer has become highly recognizable, if you’re in the market for aspirin — and you’re about 60. That’s because the company has been so successful at marketing the drug for the prevention of heart attack and stroke in older adults, since 1988. But now Bayer wants to remind younger customers that aspirin had [...]

+Depression | April 25, 2011

Drug War: How Advil May Thwart the Benefits of Prozac

By Maia Szalavitz

The common painkillers known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), a class of medication that includes aspirin, naproxen (Aleve), and ibuprofen (Advil), can significantly reduce the effectiveness of certain antidepressants — cutting rates of remission from depression from 55% to 45% — according to a new study.

+Pharmaceuticals | March 2, 2011

Ibuprofen May Reduce the Risk of Parkinson’s Disease

By Alice Park

Ibuprofen is a popular painkiller, which works wonders to reduce inflammation in chronic conditions like arthritis and more discrete hurts brought about by surgery. Now researchers are hoping to add another condition to that list — Parkinson’s disease.

+Cancer | December 7, 2010

Study: Daily Aspirin Helps Reduce Cancer Deaths

By Meredith Melnick

Millions of middle-aged and elderly people already take a low-dose aspirin to lower their risk of heart attack or stroke. But could their daily preventive be staving off cancer too? New research published Dec. 7 in The Lancet suggests that it does.

+Uncategorized | March 4, 2010

Regular analgesic use may increase hearing loss risk

By Tiffany O'Callaghan

Men who regularly take aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil) or acetaminophen (Tylenol) more than twice a week may be at increased risk for hearing loss, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Medicine and highlighted by the L.A. Times‘ health blog. The research included nearly 27,000 men between ages 40 to 74 at [...]