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Aspirin is one of the world's
safest and least expensive pain relievers with over
100 years of proven and effective treatment for a variety
of ailments. It is the active ingredient in more than
50 over-the-counter medications.
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Aspirin Therapy: Maximizing the Benefits
Discovery Health recently premiered ASPIRIN THERAPY: MAXIMIZING THE
BENEFITS. Experts weighed in aspirin and its use in the primary and
secondary prevention of cardiovascular and cerebral-vascular events.
The show provides viewers with the latest on the benefits and the risks
of aspirin.
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(http://discoveryhealthcme.discovery.com/aspirin/aspirin.html)
Benefits of Daily Aspirin for Women
An ABC News Healthy Life segment focused on the benefits of daily aspirin use for women. April 2, 2007.
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The Aspirin Foundation of America joins Revolution Health
The Aspirin Foundation of America is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Revolution Health, a new health care website started by AOL co-founder Steve Case. Revolution Health helps individuals take action to manage their health care, conditions and healthy living goals by bringing together a blend of the best health information, tools, communities and services all in one place. See what Revolution Health has to say about aspirin. 
Aspirin: How Research Keeps Giving New Life to an Ancient
Medicine
A "Science In The News" segment on Voice of
America focuses on aspirin and how new research keeps
giving new life to the drug. The segment includes the
history of aspirin, and its evolution into one of the
most widely used drugs in the world. December 11, 2006.
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Health Info In A Flash - Underused
Aspirin
Health and Human Services report now says aspirin is
under-utilized. December 7, 2006.
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the Video...
Aspirin Can Help Women Prevent
Heart Attacks
An aspirin a day has proven beneficial for men in preventing
heart attacks and strokes, and now studies are confirming
that the same is true for women. November 22, 2006.
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More...
Long-term aspirin use reduces colorectal cancer risk in men
The use of regular, long-term aspirin and NSAIDs reduced the risk associated with colorectal cancer, according to a study published in the January issue of Gastroenterology. However, the study also found that the use of aspirin for chemoprevention of colorectal cancer may require using the drug at doses that are higher than recommended over a long period of time.
Read the study here: http://www.gastrojournal.org/article/PIIS0016508507017453/fulltext
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Regular use of aspirin can reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease
Regular use of NSAIDS, including aspirin, can reduce the risk of
Parkinson’s disease by as much as 60 percent, according to researchers
at UCLA. Researchers studied 579 men and women from California, half of
whom had Parkinson’s disease, and found women who were regular users of
aspirin reduced their likelihood of developing the disease by 40
percent. It was especially beneficial to women who took aspirin
regularly for more than two years.
Read the study here: http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/19/1836
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Aspirin found to lower heart disease in women
Women who take aspirin in low or moderate doses reduce their risk of dying from any cause, particularly heart disease, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School found that women in the study who took one to 14 aspirin a week reduced their risk of dying from heart disease by 38 percent and by 25 percent from all causes. The researchers used 24 years of data from 79,439 nurses enrolled in the Nurses Health Study. March 26, 2007.
Read the study here: http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/167/6/562
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American Heart Association urges aspirin use for women
The American Heart Association 2007 Guidelines for Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Women advise women in danger of heart disease or stroke to speak to their physicians about daily aspirin use. Dr. Lori Mosca, chairwoman of the AHA expert panel that wrote the guidelines, said: “Since the last guidelines were developed, more definitive clinical trials became available to suggest that healthcare providers should consider aspirin in women to prevent stroke.”
Read more: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3045524
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Aspirin May Keep Adult-Onset Asthma Away
Research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine suggests that aspirin may reduce the development of asthma in adults. The study found that among a large group of healthy men, those taking a single aspirin every other day were 22 percent less likely to develop asthma than those who did not. January 15, 2007.
Read the study here: http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/175/2/120
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Aspirin
May Help Combat Enlarged Prostate
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic announced that the
use of certain NSAIDs, including aspirin, could help
reduce or delay by half the risk of an enlarged prostate.
August 30, 2006
Read the abstract here: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/...
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Aspirin Found To Help Women's Cardiovascular Health
Aspirin was found to help women's cardiovascular
health as much as men's, according to research published
in the Journal of the American Medical Association (3/21).
The research, which was conducted at Johns Hopkins University,
found that aspirin prevented blood clots from forming
in women as well as men, apparently contradicting pervious
research questioning aspirin's role in women's cardiovascular
health. March 21, 2006.
Read the abstract here: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/12/1420
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Read the Johns Hopkins press release
here:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/...
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