Your mother may wash down an aspirin with her morning coffee even when she doesn't have a headache—at least 20 percent of women over 55 take the painkiller every day to ward off heart disease. Now ...

New recommendations about aspirin, heart health and colon cancer have left many people confused. Here’s what you need to know. By Tara Parker-Pope For years, many doctors have recommended that people ...

Aspirin, one of the world's oldest and cheapest drugs, has shown remarkable promise in treating colon cancer in people with mutations in a gene that's thought to play a role in the disease. Among ...