Aspirin

A shocking new study has found heavy metals in amongst other toxic additives to be present in herbal medicines sold across Australia.

New research suggests while women over 65 would gain from taking the drug daily, those using it younger than 65 are susceptible to stomach bleeding.

Researchers from The University of Texas in Austin looked at the records of 440 breast cancer patients and compared them with those who took nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and those who didn’t. The study, published in the journal Cancer Research, found that NSAIDs reduced the recurrence rate by 50 per cent. If the oestrogen positive cancer did recur, […]

People who take aspirin just once a week are more than twice as likely to develop age-related blindness, a new Australian study has found. A team from Sydney’s Westmead Millennium Institute for medical research conducted a 15-year study that found that regular users of the drug are significantly more likely to suffer from macular degeneration, […]