About 10 percent of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery experience sudden loss of kidney function, but giving patients aspirin or blood pressure medication before or after surgery does not reduce ...

For decades, taking a daily low-dose aspirin was a widely accepted practice for preventing heart attacks and strokes. But a ...

Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the United States, at a cost of about 700,000 lives per year. For ...

SALT LAKE CITY — New guidelines reverse long-standing recommendations for preventing a heart attack or stroke in high-risk patients. Judd Parr is a very obedient patient. "[I do] everything that the ...

A majority of middle-aged men and women eligible to take aspirin to prevent heart attack and stroke do not recall their doctors ever telling them to do so, according to a study of an American sample ...