June 5, 2012— -- For years, the advice for preventing heart disease has been simple: take an aspirin every day; it can't hurt. But new research suggests that patients taking the pills and ...

According to new guidelines, most people without heart disease should not take a daily aspirin as a preventative measure. According to new guidelines, ...

Aspirin no longer recommended to prevent a first heart attack, stroke for most adults over 60. Meanwhile, the new guidance said people 40 to 59 should only take it if they have a high risk of ...

Aspirin lowers risk after a heart attack or stroke. Most don’t use it. Fewer than 40 percent of people who have suffered a heart attack or stroke take a daily aspirin, even though it can help ...

Taking a low-dose aspirin every day has long been known to cut the chances of another heart attack, stroke or other heart problem in people who already have had one, but the risks don't outweigh ...

That small white pill in your medicine cabinet might be more valuable than you realize. When someone clutches their chest and calls 911 with heart attack symptoms, emergency responders often reach ...

First recommended in the 1990s, milllions of Americans continue to take an aspirin each day for their heart health — despite findings it increases your bleeding risk. In fact, the American ...

Researchers at Scotland’s University of Dundee administered aspirin, an antioxidant or a placebo to 1,276 adult diabetics with no initial symptoms of heart disease, and monitored their health ...

Over three years, 12.7 percent of the patients taking an assortment of pills experienced another heart attack or stroke, or died of a cardiac event or needed urgent treatment to open a blocked ...