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...Percentage drop in the occurrence of ovarian cancer in women who regularly take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as Advil or Aleve, according to a new study in Epidemiology. Aspirin users had the lowest risk--37% lower than that of nonusers...
...people in the new study, who will be drawn from the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, Australia and South America, will be randomly assigned a regimen of either Celebrex, ibuprofen or naproxen. They will also take aspirin, cholesterol-lowering drugs and other medications appropriate for heart patients, as well as a drug to prevent stomach bleeding, which all three of the painkillers may cause. The four-year study should be sufficient time to reveal what risk, if any, the cox-2s pose, but it could end sooner if one of the medications reveals itself as just too dangerous...
...scattered light coming back, which carries the optical signature of the material, whether it's a liquid or a solid," explains Ahura founder and president Daryoosh Vakhshoori. "You can read the substance as if it had a bar code, observing if the white powder you see is sugar, aspirin or something more dangerous...
...ASPIRIN It turns out the studies that have proved, again and again, that low doses of aspirin taken daily can reduce the risk of a first heart attack--by an average of 30%--were conducted primarily on men. When the effects of aspirin were tested on the 40,000 participants in the giant Women's Health Study, the results were strikingly different: women who took aspirin every other day for 10 years had roughly the same number of heart attacks as those taking a placebo. The only group of women who had fewer heart incidents were those who were...
GOOD FOR GOOSE, NOT FOR GANDER A Duke University analysis of 95,456 patients reports that taking regular low doses of aspirin reduces the risk of stroke in women...