by Sue Robbins | Jan 13, 2015 | Headache Drugs
For many, taking a daily aspirin to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke is a common practice. A new study, however, has found that 11% of them should not be doing so. Today, an article written by Nicholas Bakalar of the New York Times reports on the...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 29, 2014 | Headache Drugs
A review of studies has found that aspirin and other non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs taken by mouth may reduce the risk for squamous cell carcinoma. Squamous cell carcinoma, caused by exposure to ultraviolet light over a lifetime, is the second most common form...
by Sue Robbins | Mar 27, 2013 | Headache Drugs
While regular doses of aspirin lowers the risk of strokes, heart attacks and breast, colon and prostate cancer, should everyone take it on a daily basis? Dr. Randall Stafford, professor of medicine at Stanford’s Prevention Research Center says no. Stafford...
by Dr Robbins | Aug 2, 2012 | Headache Drugs
There is a bill that, I believe, is pending from Congress, which would make it more difficult to obtain meds from Canada, for people in the US. US folks obtaining meds from Canada has a long long history, as in 1900 people in the US were importing aspirin(from the...
by Dr Robbins | Mar 31, 2012 | Headache Drugs
Good ol’ aspirin..compounded by the (brilliant for the time) German organic chemists in about 1872…found to have, by accident, anti-arthritis and pain properties; in 1900, people in the U.S. were buying aspirin from Canada and sneaking it over the border...
