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...pharmaceuticals in the medicine chest, none is more widely used than aspirin. In the U.S. alone, some $103 million worth of aspirin tablets are consumed each year by people seeking relief from colds, headaches and arthritis. Despite the fact that doctors have been recommending the use of aspirin for more than 75 years, they still know little about how it works or why it is so effective. Now, as a result of continuing research, doctors are questioning one traditional use and looking into a possible new application of the world's first wonder drug...
...aspirin to fight the fever, scratchy throat, headache and general malaise of the common cold is being reappraised as a result of a study conducted at Chicago's University of Illinois Medical Center. Doctors at the school dosed 45 healthy young volunteers with nose drops containing common cold viruses, then treated 25 of the patients with aspirin while the other 20 were given a placebo...
Sharing Infection. Taking regular samplings after the volunteers developed colds, the researchers found that the nasal drippings of aspirin users more often contained virus than those of the nonusers. The aspirin users were thus more likely to spread their viruses and the colds they can cause. Reason: though the aspirin did not cure the colds, it relieved the symptoms sufficiently to allow the victims to go about their daily routines...
...preview session with reporters over the weekend, thus becoming the first President since Harry Truman to do so. Ford quoted Truman as describing the $70 billion budget for 1953, another poor year, as "the biggest headache I have ever had." The President added: "Harry, I hope you left some aspirin...
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