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With the rise of wonder drugs, the common aspirin might have been expected to suffer a decline. But instead, doctors say that use of aspirin is steadily on the rise (the U.S. alone consumes 42 million tablets a day). One of its chief uses: treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, one of the nation's commonest chronic illnesses...
Recently, several drug firms produced a "super-aspirin"-a combination of aspirin and a small amount of steroid hormones -which is being publicized as a spectacular remedy for arthritis...
Last week at the meeting of the American Rheumatism Foundation in Bethesda, Md., some of the nation's most prominent rheumatologists suggested that aspirin would have been better left alone...
Since both hormones and aspirin have proved effective remedies for arthritis, super-aspirin backers claim that the two together exert a synergistic effect on patients, i.e., produce greater benefit than the sum of each used separately. But 1) the evidence for super-aspirin's synergistic effect is questionable; 2) aspirin can be taken safely by almost any patient, while hormones are suitable only for some patients. Cortisone, ACTH, prednisone and other hormones sometimes produce such undesirable side effects as peptic ulcers, edema, mental disturbances and high blood pressure...
...confused with the common analgesic tablets, aspirin-phenacetin-caffeine...