What Doctors Don't Tell YouRofecoxib 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. ...
America's drug 'watchdog', the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), had a nice Christmas present for the pharmaceuticals. On Christmas Eve it told all doctors in the USA to treat with extreme caution the entire family of NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti...
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Stroke victims can reduce their dosage of aspirin by nine tenths and still prevent further recurrences. ...
Another anti-inflammatory bites the dust. Another COX-2 inhibitor has been shot down by the FDA. Having spent the last two months reviewing the safety of the COX-2-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), the US regulatory agency...
Syllogism Corner
Dosing yourself up with aspirin and other non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs is good for you, researchers from Nottingham would have us believe. ...
Q I regularly take aspirin but, recently, I’ve been prescribed an antihypertensive. Is there any interaction between these drugs? - CH, Swindon
I have been very reluctantly taking warfarin for the past four years in connection with atrial fibrillation. In WDDTY vol 12 no 9, it states that a multicentre US trial has found that warfarin and aspirin perform equally well in
