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| | Aspirin |
 | | Aspirin is used to relieve many kinds of minor aches and pains--headaches, toothaches, muscle pain, menstrual cramps, the joint pain from arthritis, and aches associated with colds and flu. | | | Aspirin is a medicine that relieves pain and reduces fever. | | | Aspirin is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream and provides quick and relatively long-lasting pain relief. |
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| | Aspirin |
| | Aspirin® has been around longer and has been more extensively tested than any other analgesic, demonstrating that it is both a well-tolerated and effective choice for pain relief. | | | Like all drugs, Aspirin® can deteriorate over time and not be as effective. |
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| | Aspirin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In some countries the name is used as a generic term for the drug rather than the manufacturer's trademark. | | | Several hundred fatal overdoses of aspirin occur annually, but the vast majority of its uses are beneficial. | | | If the overdose was intentional, the patient should undergo psychiatric evaluation, as with any suicide attempt. |
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| | A History of Aspirin [MJM 1996 2: 115-120] |
| | In this way, aspirin was similar to its predecessor phenacetin, which "found its birth in what may be called the antipyretic era [of the 1880s and 1890s, and] like its relatives has come to be employed chiefly for the relief of pain" (12). | | | Aspirin has certainly been put to many different uses throughout the twentieth century, and serves as an example of one of many products of the novel and tenuous relationship that developed during the late nineteenth century between laboratory science, the manufacturing industry, and medical humanitarianism. | | | Indeed, even when aspirin was included in these works, it was not always cited for use in treating ailments with which one now associate the drug. |
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| | Aspirin © Priory Lodge Education Ltd.1996. |
| | Antiplatelet therapy with aspirin or ticlopidine (a platelet function inhibitor with a different mechanism of action than aspirin) reduces stroke by about 25% in many patients with transient ischaemic attack or initial stroke.Warfarin should not be used routinely for primary cerebrovascular disease but is useful to prevent cardioembolic stroke. | | | Patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation have a substantial risk for stroke and most should be treated with warfarin.Risk-factor management such as control of hypertension,cessation of smoking and treatment of hyperlipidaemia is as important as antithrombotic or surgical therapies for most patients with threatened stroke.Treating isolated systolic hypertension in elderly patients reduces stroke risk. | | | Clear benefits have been found in the use of aspirin for nonfatal myocardial infarction,evolving myocardial infarction in the acute phase,unstable angina and stroke. |
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| | Daily Aspirin Therapy |
| | Before deciding if daily aspirin use is right for you, your health professional will consider such factors as your medical and family history, your use of other medicines, your allergies and sensitivities, and what side effects you may experience. | | | Some drug products combine aspirin with other pain relievers or with certain other ingredients and should not be used as long-term aspirin treatment. | | | Aspirin can help prevent a heart attack or clot-related stroke by lowering the clotting action of the blood's platelets. |
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| | Diabetes Monitor - aspirin therapy |
| | People with aspirin allergy, bleeding tendency, anticoagulant therapy, recent gastrointestinal bleeding, and clinically active hepatic disease are not candidates for aspirin therapy. | | | Use aspirin therapy (75–162 mg/day) as a secondary prevention strategy in diabetic men and women with a history of myocardial infarction, vascular bypass procedure, stroke or transient ischemic attack, peripheral vascular disease, claudication, and/or angina. | | | Use aspirin therapy therapy (75–162 mg/day) as a primary prevention strategy in men and women with type 2 diabetes at increased cardiovascular risk, including those over 40 years of age or who have additional risk factors (family history of CVD, hypertension, smoking, dyslipidemia, albuminuria). |
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| | Medinfo: Aspirin |
| | Aspirin must not be used by anyone with known allergy to aspirin, or who has a bleeding disorder, or who is taking blood thinning drugs (anticoagulants). | | | Aspirin works, like the other NSAIDs, to reduce inflammation and pain, by affecting the prostaglandins. | | | The most common unwanted affect is indigestion, and so it should not be used (except on medical advice) in someone who has a peptic ulcer or has had one in the past. |
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| | Aspirin Information from Drugs.com |
| | Aspirin is also used under medical supervision to treat and/or prevent heart attacks, transient ischemic attacks (TIAs or "mini-strokes"), strokes, and angina in certain individuals. | | | Enteric-coated aspirin is specially formulated to be gentle on your stomach. |
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| | Aspirin for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events: Summary of the Evidence |
| | advanced age was associated with an increased incidence of bleeding during aspirin therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation. | | | During the BMD trial, 39 percent of participants in the aspirin group discontinued therapy, primarily because of dyspepsia; 11 percent of participants assigned to no therapy began taking aspirin during the course of the trial. | | | For patients similar to those enrolled in the trials, aspirin reduces the risk for the combined endpoint of nonfatal myocardial infarction and fatal coronary heart disease (CHD) by 28 percent (summary OR, 0.72; 95 percent CI, 0.60 to 0.87). |
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| | BBC NEWS Health Aspirin 'prevents cancer' |
| | They found that people who had taken aspirin regularly for five years or more cut their chances of developing cancers of the mouth, throat and oesophagus by two thirds compared to those who didn't take the medicine. | | | "This is the first quantitative evidence that taking aspirin may reduce the risk of developing cancers in what we call the aerodigestive tract, connecting the mouth and the stomach. | | | They analysed information from three separate studies involving 965 cancer patients and 1779 people who were in hospital for other conditions. |
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| | MedlinePlus Drug Information: Aspirin |
| | tell your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to aspirin, other arthritis or pain medications (e.g., ibuprofen), tartrazine dye, or any other drugs. | | | If your doctor prescribes aspirin for you, you will receive specific directions for how often you should take it. | | | This medication is sometimes prescribed for other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information. |
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| | An Aspirin a Day |
| | Aspirin and all other over-the-counter pain relievers and fever reducers for adults will soon carry a warning to people who drink three or more alcoholic beverages a day: Talk with your doctor before using these drugs. | | | Some typical signs are an uncomfortable pressure or pain in the center of the chest (sometimes along with lightheadedness, fainting, shortness of breath, nausea, or sweating) or a pain going to the shoulders, neck and arms. | | | Reduce the prostaglandins, and you reduce the risk of dangerous blood clots, heart attacks, and strokes. |
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| | Giving Your Dog Aspirin - Succeed with Healthy Animals |
| | Usually, aspirin is given to relieve extreme conditions of discomfort. | | | Dogs are most commonly given aspirin for treatment of arthritis and associated joint pain. | | | There may be other situations where your dog is in pain, where aspirin may give relief. |
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| | Cheerz Anti-Hangover Supplement - Misc. Resources |
| | He points out that the doctors taking aspirin in the physicians study had twice as many sudden cardiac deaths, twice the incidence of moderate to severe hemorrhagic strokes and almost twice as many ulcers as those taking the placebo. | | | Although some people are aware that taking aspirin and drinking may cause gastric bleeding, many are not aware that taking the common over the counter pain reliever extra strength acetaminophen (e.g. | | | Yet anti-alcohol advocates continually rail about the stroke danger from alcohol while ignoring a common drug with five times the risk. |
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| | MedlinePlus Drug Information: Salicylates (Systemic) |
| | Therefore, aspirin should be used for this purpose only when your doctor decides, after studying your medical condition and history, that the danger of blood clots is greater than the risk of bleeding. | | | Buffered aspirin, choline and magnesium salicylates, or magnesium salicylate can keep many other medicines, especially some medicines used to treat infections, from working properly. | | | However, there is a chance that regular use of salicylates late in pregnancy may cause unwanted effects on the heart or blood flow in the fetus or in the newborn infant. |
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| | Aspirin |
| | Aspirin is an anti-inflammatory pain medication (analgesic) that is used to relieve headaches, toothaches, and minor aches and pains, and to reduce fever. | | | Do not chew or crush sustained-release brands, such as Bayer time-release aspirin, or pills coated to delay breakdown of the drug, such as Ecotrin. | | | Possible food and drug interactions when taking this medication |
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| | Aspirin - Drugs & Vitamins - Drug Library - DrugDigest |
| | Only take aspirin to prevent heart attacks or blood clotting if prescribed by your prescriber or health care professional. | | | If you are receiving cancer chemotherapy or have had an organ transplant, do not take aspirin without checking with your prescriber or health care professional. | | | It can also be part of therapy to reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke. |
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| | An aspirin a day keeps the doctor at bay |
| | It showed that an aspirin a day reduces the incidence of heart attacks by half, and that the drug can also help to prevent thrombosis and strokes. | | | Lately it has come to be seen as a life-saver — prescribed to those at risk of heart attacks and strokes as a way of preventing the blood clots that cause them. | | | There is clearly life in the old drug yet. |
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| | Is it safe to take aspirin during pregnancy? |
| | A few studies show that taking aspirin around the time of conception and in early pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of miscarriage. | | | However, if you're already taking a prescribed dose of aspirin for a specific condition, you may need to continue taking it, but you should check with your healthcare provider before taking any aspirin during pregnancy or while you're trying to conceive. | | | Finally, taking full-dose aspirin later in pregnancy might delay labor and increase the risk of heart and related lung problems in your newborn, and bleeding complications for you and your baby. |
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| | Aspirin in Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention |
| | After you call 9-1-1, the 9-1-1 operator may recommend that you take an aspirin. He or she can make sure that you don't have an allergy to aspirin or a condition that makes using it too risky. | | | You should not start aspirin therapy without first consulting your physician. The risks and benefits of aspirin therapy vary for each person. | | | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns that people who regularly take aspirin shouldn't drink alcohol.&; Patients who have heart disease should stop drinking alcohol and keep taking aspirin if their doctor prescribed aspirin as part of the treatment plan for their heart condition. Don't stop taking aspirin without talking to your doctor first. |
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| | Medication - Aspirin for Dogs |
| | Maggie- Aspirin has the same problems in dogs that it has in people. | | | The dog is stiff but does not appear to be in pain, esp when the doorbell rings. | | | I have been giving my 45 lb black lab/pointer 250 mg of buffered aspirin w/ his food each day and it seems to help. |
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| | Aspirin Foundation Home Page |
| | Aspirin is one of the world's safest and least expensive pain relievers with over 100 years of proven and effective treatment for a variety of ailments. | | | Aspirin was found to help women's cardiovascular health as much as men's, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (3/21). | | | The research, which was led by a scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, found that aspirin and other NSAIDs could help prevent esophageal cancer in those with Barrett's Esophagus, a precancerous condition. |
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| | Aspirin Foundation |
| | Aspirin is still the most versatile and effective medicine on the pharmacist’s shelf. | | | Aspirin Foundation is a source of information for consumers, health professionals and journalists on all scientific and general aspects of aspirin usage. | | | Aspirin, one of the first drugs to come into common usage, is still the mostly widely used in the world - approximately 35,000 metric tonnes are produced and consumed annually, enough to make over 100 billion standard aspirin tablets every year. |
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| | Aspirin |
| | Aspirin is one of the most used medicines. | | | Aspirin in postoperative pain Aspirin with codeine in postoperative pain Aspirin for acute migraine Aspirin plus metoclopramide for acute migraine Aspirin for dysmenorrhoea | | | Aspirin and colorectal adenoma Aspirin/NSAID and oesophageal cancer Aspirin and lung cancer Aspirin and pancreatic cancer Colorectal polyps: aspirin, coxibs, and NSAIDs Low-dose aspirin and cancer |
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| | Bayer Aspirin |
| | No other OTC analgesic has been proven to be more effective than aspirin in relieving tough pain. | | | When taken under the direction of a doctor, Bayer Aspirin has the ability to prevent a second heart attack or stroke. | | | In fact, two Extra-Strength Bayer Aspirin have been proven to be as effective on tough pain as the most prescribed dosage of Tylenol® with Codeine #3 in headache and dental pain studies. |
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| | Howstuffworks "How Aspirin Works" |
| | Have you ever had a headache? Chances are you have; almost all of us do once in a while. And chances are you took some kind of medicine to ease your headache. | | | That medicine was most likely a relative of aspirin. | | | You may also have taken aspirin or its relatives for other problems, like inflammation (swelling of joints or other parts of the body) or fever. |
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| | Buy aspirin online |
| | Please visit our site help pages for information about our site and our policies. | | | Caplets, Extra Strength Back & Body Pain Aspirin | | | Tablets, Adult Low Strength Aspirin Pain Reliever, 81 mg - 120 ea |
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| | Aspirin Center - HeartCenterOnline: |
| | All of our patient guides are edited by our Physician Advisory Board. | | | Take one of our quizzes to test your health knowledge and learn something new: | | | Click on any term below to read our complete patient education guide. |
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| | Aspirin |
| | If you have an allergy to aspirin, aspirin-like products, or any other part of the medicine. | | | What key warnings should I know about before taking this medicine? | | | Children and teenagers should not use aspirin for flu symptoms or chickenpox. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Aspirin |
| | Complications can be avoided by using enteric-coated aspirin, which does not dissolve until reaching the intestine. | | | Aspirin should not be given to children who have chicken pox or influenza, because it increases the risk of contracting the rare and frequently fatal Reye's syndrome, a disease of the brain and some abdominal organs. | | | Studies of aspirin's anticlotting activities suggest that half an aspirin tablet per day may reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in some persons. |
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| | Ecotrin – The safer* aspirin for daily aspirin therapy |
| | Explore this site and join Here’s To Life™, Ecotrin’s free heart health program to find out why so many men and women have made Ecotrin aspirin a part of their overall heart health therapy. | | | And always talk to your doctor first before starting a new heart health regimen. | | | Ecotrin is the #1 cardiologist, physician and pharmacist recommended aspirin*, and the aspirin therapy used most often by cardiologists themselves for the prevention of heart disease and heart attack. |
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| | Bayer ASA Side Effects, and Drug Interactions - Aspirin - RxList Monographs |
| | Subjects with marked hypertension or renal insufficiency had been excluded from the trial so that the clinical importance of these observations for such subjects or for any subjects treated over more prolonged periods is not known. | | | Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Agents: Aspirin is contraindicated in patients who are hypersensitive to nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agents. | | | In the largest postinfarction study (the Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study (AMIS) with 4,500 people), the percentage of incidences of gastrointestinal symptoms for the aspirin (1,000 mg of a standard, solid-tablet formulation) and placebo-treated subjects, respectively, were stomach pain (14.5%, 4.4%), heartburn (11.9%, 4.8%), nausea and/or vomiting (7.6%, 2.1%), hospitalization for GI disorder (4.9%, 3.5%). |
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| | The Aspirin story |
| | Aspirin had became known as a preventative medicine in the fight against heart attacks, strokes and, lately, cancer. | | | Aspirin was Hoffmann's most remarkable, but not his only success. | | | However, Hoffmann did not discover "aspirin." He "rediscovered" it after studying experiments on acetylsalicylic acid made 40 years earlier by French chemist Charles Gergardt. |
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| | OH WILLOW, DON'T WEEP |
| | Ibuprofen (Advil and Motrin) is similar as a painkiller but is especially widely used to reduced swelling of joints, particularly for athletes, where narcotics often cannot be administered for pain, and ketoprofen (Orutis KT) is substituted for ibuprofen, when ibuprofen is not effective. | | | Aspirin, which is significantly cheaper, has the additional anti-inflammatory effects and therefore is critical for arthritis patients (much cheaper than the competing drugs). | | | Medical studies on the effect of aspirin on breaking up blood clots (an antithrombotic drug) are now fairly conclusive, and many physicians prescribe daily aspirin after heart attacks or even as a preventative program because aspirin inhibits release of prostaglandin and thereby platelet agglutination. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Aspirin overdose |
| | Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) can be found in many prescription and over-the-counter pain relievers, including: | | | How well a patient does depends on how much aspirin is in the blood. | | | The health care provider will measure and monitor the patient's vital signs, including temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and blood pressure. |
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| | HOME |
| | to aid in early detection and educate the public and medical communities about the risk involved with using aspirin and other salicylates. | | | All body organs are affected, with the liver and brain suffering most | | | While the cause and cure remain unknown, research has established a link between Reye's Syndrome and the use of aspirin and other salicylate-containing medications. |
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| | aspirin - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about aspirin |
| | A new ‘super aspirin’, abciximab, is used to treat patients having coronary angioplasty to clear their arteries. | | | Regular use of aspirin is recommended for people at increased risk of heart attack, thrombosis, and some kinds of stroke. | | | It is the world's most widely used drug. |
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| | Aspirin |
| | As far as what the "chemistry" of aspirin is, well, I'm not quilified to completely explain all its effects in the body, etc. If you have a specific question about some particular type of effect it has or reaction it might undergo, that will be easier to answer than a general question about chemistry. | | | There is so much that could be said about the chemistry of aspirin (or any other compound, for that matter) that I really don't know where to begin. | | | The shape and the electrical charges of the molecule give it the ability to stop fever and pain in the body. |
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Cokelore (Painkiller Combination) |
| | and aspirin's being a hangover cure, we come to one bit of the lore which has something to it. | | | In some parts of the U.S., girls were in the habit of keeping a careful eye on their Cokes, lest some less-than-successful Lotharios slip aspirin into their drinks, rendering them wanton and willing. | | | Individually, both of these products couldn't help but make things better at a time like that — the Coke because it helps rehydrate an alcohol-dried body, and the aspirin because it eases the physical suffering of a pounding head. |
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