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Aspirin

04/05/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Pycnogenol: a powerful, effective alternative to aspirin as a blood thinner

No one wants to have a heart attack, so many people take aspirin every day in an effort to reduce their risk. Its blood-thinning properties may indeed be helpful when it comes to preventing heart attacks, but aspirin is far from the harmless medicine that it’s made out to be. It might be available over […]

01/23/2018 / By Janine Acero

Prepper medicine: 7 natural pain-relieving plants

There is no such thing as being too prepared in times of emergency. Stocking up on necessities such as medications will be valuable; there will come a time when medicines will be scarce, and you won’t always have them at your disposal. Luckily, there are a myriad of medicinal herbs and plants that are just […]

04/27/2017 / By D. Samuelson

5 Over-the-counter drugs you MUST avoid

Many folks are well aware of the toxic ingredients in the long list of physician prescribed chemically concocted pharmaceuticals, along with the serious and sometimes deadly side effects that can occur while taking them. Yet millions don’t think twice about grabbing bright shiny packages of commonly used pills or liquids on the shelves of grocery and drugstores stores throughout America. These over […]

04/20/2017 / By Earl Garcia

Aspirin myth BUSTED as new science reveals it does nothing to prevent heart attack risk

Aspirin may not be as effective in preventing heart disease as previously thought, a recent analysis revealed. In a review of 11 previous studies, researchers at the University of Florida Health noted that the drug did not show efficacy in reducing cardiovascular deaths, nor heart attack and stroke risk in patients with peripheral arterial disease. For the study, the scientists examined data on […]

03/26/2017 / By Russel Davis

Daily aspirin found to increase risk of heart attack by 190%

Taking aspirin regularly to keep heart disease at bay may do more harm than good, according to a recent study. Researchers at the Southampton University in the U.K. and the Maastricht University in the Netherlands found that daily aspirin intake may lead to increased odds of heart attack. Researchers examined 30,000 patients with atrial fibrillation – a condition […]

03/10/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

Discovery reveals plant based aspirin medicine was used 50,000 years ago

Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives. They left Africa some 200,000 years ago to venture into Eurasia long before humans did. It is believed that, for a while, Neanderthals and our early human ancestors lived alongside each other in Europe. While Neanderthals looked quite similar to us, they are often thought of as our dumber, […]

02/03/2017 / By David Gutierrez

Common painkillers ibuprofen and paracetamol linked to hearing loss

We can now add hearing loss to the growing list of serious side effects of common, over-the-counter painkillers A new study, conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and published in the Journal of Epidemiology, found a significantly increased risk of hearing loss among middle-aged women who took ibuprofen or paracetamol just twice a […]

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