For decades, taking low-dose aspirin every day was widely recommended as an easy way to prevent heart attacks and strokes. But that advice has changed.

As low-dose prophylactic aspirin therapy becomes common among older people, potential risks that are associated with such treatment assume increasing importance. In particular, some clinicians are ...

Immediate administration of aspirin after ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) reduces the risk of vascular events, but the optimum dose in this setting is unknown. Berger et al.

Description The goal of the trial was to evaluate treatment with famotidine compared with placebo among patients taking low-dose aspirin. Hypothesis Famotidine would be more effective in ...

Sandra Rose, a nurse in Raleigh, NC, started taking a daily aspirin because "it seemed like a wonder drug," preventing heart attacks and strokes. "All the patients seemed to be on a low-dose ...

Aspirin 25mg (immediate-release), dipyridamole 200mg (extended-release); caps. Dipyridamole inhibits the uptake of adenosine into platelets, endothelial cells and erythrocytes in vitro and in vivo.