Every 7 years I take a test to maintain my medical board certification. This test is prepared by the American Board of Family Medicine. The last time I took the test I clearly remember a multiple choice question regarding osteoarthritis. The choice...
Aspirin, codeine phosphate and paracetamol are such common over the counter painkillers (analgesics) that people take them almost without thinking. ...
A new trial has shown that warfarin or warfarin plus aspirin are 20 to 30 per cent better than aspirin alone in preventing composite vascular events after myocardial infarction (MI).
In the heady world of the pharmaceutical industry, the most profitable industry in the world - where world sales doubled in the last five years - the pressure is always intense to develop new product.
Readers’ letters
Several cases of children born from assisted conception developing tumours have come to light. ... ...
Re WDDTY vol 14 no 4, Alternatives, p 6, which vitamin C is it that reacts adversely with aspirin? Is it the vitamin C that my body extracts from food or is it from the 1000-g supplement I take daily? - C. Harper, Isle of Lewis
Rofecoxib is one of the new breed of anti-inflammatories known as COX-2 (cyclo-oxygenase-2) inhibitors that are supposed to be safer than NSAIDs such as aspirin.
Daily doses of aspirin do not help prevent pre-eclampsia, concludes a major study. ...
Ray Sahelian MD
What Doctors Don't Tell You