That was followed by a 2022 recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) stressing that people ages ...

The USPSTF does not recommend that adults aged 60 and older take a daily aspirin for the primary prevention of cardiovascular ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the u-s and for years doctors recommended older adults take a daily aspirin as a preventative measure. But medical guidelines have changed.

People over 75 taking daily aspirin after a stroke or heart attack are at higher risk of major - and sometimes fatal - stomach bleeds than previously thought, research in the Lancet shows.

Michael Mosley talks to two experts with very different opinions on whether healthy people, who haven’t had a heart attack, should be taking a daily 75mg dose of aspirin. Professor Peter Elwood ...

Sandra Rose, a nurse in Raleigh, NC, started taking a daily aspirin because "it seemed like a wonder drug," preventing heart attacks and strokes. "All the patients seemed to be on a low-dose ...

Despite doctors not recommending daily aspirin for adults over 60 without known heart issues, about a third of adults 60 and older—more than 18 million people—take it anyway.

A post hoc analysis revealed that the long-term benefits of clopidogrel over aspirin after PCI were most evident in patients ...

The news is the latest in a string of discoveries about the health benefits of aspirin, which was invented more than 100 years ago. It is already taken daily by more than two million angina ...

Most of us grab an aspirin as a quick-fix way to treat migraines or period pain. But a string of studies show that this household painkiller could cure more serious illnesses from prostate and ...