For years, older adults took a baby aspirin a day to help ward off a first-time heart attack or stroke. Now yet another study is showing the risks are not worth it for most. Specifically, researchers ...

Low-dose aspirin or baby aspirin (81 to 100 milligrams) has been used as a safe and cheap way to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots. Aspirin does this ...

Bridget Desmukes was surprised when Dr. Rita Driggers, Desmukes’ OB-GYN in Washington, D.C., recommended low-dose aspirin at her first prenatal appointment this past spring. She knew about daily ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers found the risk of brain bleeding while using low-dose aspirin outweighed any potential benefit against stroke for ...

Long-term, regular use of baby aspirin--at least 15 times per month--prior to a diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) may reduce the risk of death from the disease by limiting the spread of cancerous ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The traditional advice about taking low-dose baby aspirin every day has been tossed out the window. For select individuals, daily aspirin may do more harm than good. New ...

During a recent office visit, I saw a 4-year-old child who was not one of my regular patients. He had a fever and a runny nose. His mother was giving me the child’s medical history as I began ...