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ARTERY AID A study finds that in patients with hardening of the arteries, aspirin improves the condition of the artery lining--one reason why the old standby may help prevent stroke and heart disease...
...HEARTY DOSE If you're among the many who take a baby aspirin each day to ward off stroke or heart disease, consider this: a study suggests that using a baby aspirin daily but substituting an adult aspirin once every two weeks may offer better protection...
...insight into what makes good turn bad might help doctors make good cholesterol even better. It may also point the way to better drugs and explain why aspirin helps prevent heart attacks. Besides its well-known action of thinning the blood and making clotting less likely, aspirin may also tone down the inflammation that leads to plaque formation...
HEART IN YOUR MOUTH At the first sign of a heart attack, take an aspirin. If everyone heeded that advice, 5,000 to 10,000 deaths could be prevented each year, a report concludes...
...wort is relatively harmless. "Millions of people have taken, or are now taking, hypericum," observes Jerry Cott, a Maryland-based pharmacologist, "and none of the side effects reported have been anything like those we've seen with drugs like Prozac. That's kind of exciting." Indeed, just as aspirin (whose active ingredient was first isolated from the bark of the willow tree) has spurred the development of a new generation of anti-inflammatories, so hypericum may eventually stimulate the creation of safer, more powerful, antidepressant drugs...