Aspirin is the world’s best-selling painkiller, with 50 billion tablets taken annually. In 2000, the British public purchased 15 tonnes of the stuff. In addition to its analgesic effects, it is hailed as a preventative for stroke, heart disease and...
For a long time, I’ve been trying to figure out how exactly aspirin, a simple pain-reliever and anti-inflammatory, was transformed into a miracle preventative for all cardiac and vascular diseases.