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Alzheimer's disease if the most common form of dementia, affecting over 24 million people worldwide. It is degenerative, terminal and there's no known cure for it at the moment, which makes it an even scarier prospect than many of the other frightening demons of modern times, cancer and AIDS among them. Los... |
31 May 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Aspirin has been around for at least a century and we're all aware of some or most of its beneficial effects, which mainly have to do with fighting mild pains or fever and reducing the risk of cardiovascular events - including heart attacks and strokes. However, how many of you were aware of just how remarkable ... |
19 May 2008
06:01 GMT |
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Aspirin has long been attributed all sorts of miraculous properties. Ever since the little pills containing acetylsalicylic acid (see if you can say that three times in a row without blinking) entered our lives more than a century ago, their popularity rose and fell depending on the latest medical research that point... |
14 May 2008
06:45 GMT |
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Aspirin goes further than treating your headache and fever. Recently, it has been found to decrease the risk of colorectal cancer. But a new meta-analysis published in the International Journal of Clinical Practice could trigger more interest in this pill from women: aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs like as... |
17 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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You may have not associated headaches with colon disorders, but long-term aspirin use, associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), decreases your vulnerability to colorectal cancer, as it was found by a new research published in "Gastroenterology". Still, long-term aspirin use over the recommended... |
23 January 2008
03:34 GMT |
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Aspirin is the universal panacea against headache. Others sustain that aspirin is beneficial for men and women over 50 prone to heart attack due to smoking, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol level, low level of HDL (good) cholesterol, severe obesity, alcoholism, genetic predisposition to early heart attack or ... |
31 July 2007
02:43 GMT |
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Tonight you are going to make history. You'll drink more than everybody else, have a good time and escape inhibitions, but the price you'll pay tomorrow will make you say "It's the last time I do that!"…of course, until the next party comes. But when binging, the consequences will be eased if you eat a... |
10 July 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Pregnant women are advised to avoid aspirin. But aspirin seems rather to protect against pregnancy complications like pre-eclampsia, as found by a new complex review of 31 researches involving over 32,000 women. The investigations pointed to the fact that women ingesting a low-dose aspirin pill daily against blood cl... |
18 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Aspirin is a naturally occurring chemical found in the willow bark (in fact, its chemical name, acetylsalicylic acid, comes from "Salix", willow in Latin), whose properties were known for centuries by South American Indians. It is present in a lot of drugs sold without prescription and its use is increasingly growing... |
13 March 2007
10:40 GMT |
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