Of all the medical breakthroughs introduced during the past 125 years, possibly no medicine has saved so many lives as the tiny, economical, humble-appearing aspirin. We can thank Felix Hoffman or ...

About 800,000 Americans will have a heart attack or stroke this year. While heart disease can affect anyone, the risk substantially rises with age.

Many Americans don't see anything wrong with taking daily low-dose aspirin, even though experts have concluded its risks ...

A new study has found that taking a small daily dose of aspirin could help stop colon cancer from returning in some patients.

Launched 100 years ago in the Bayer laboratories in Elberfeld Germany aspirin was the first drug to be massmarketed the first to be sold in tablet form and the biggest selling drug in history A ...

While that aspirin pill knocks out your headache, it is not good to administer it to your pet dog for pain. Dogs and humans ...

Aspirin use in patients with PI3K-mutated colorectal cancer helped to reduce disease recurrence, highlighting the importance of upfront genomic testing.

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 ...

Three-year results from the ALASCCA trial (NCT02647099), presented at the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium, showed ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. For decades, taking low-dose aspirin (81 mg) every day was widely recommended as an easy way to prevent heart ...

These medicines are commonly used together, and doctors and pharmacists use drug interaction calculators to look for possible ...