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A long-awaited study has shown that low-dose aspirin therapy considerably reduces the risk of stroke in women. However, it lowers the rates of heart attack and other cardiac problems only in women age 65 and older. The Study The report comes from...
Stroke survivors who stop taking daily aspirin as recommended by their physicians U triple their risk of having another stroke within just...
Large doses of ordinary aspirin are as effective as the anticoagulant drug warfarin in preventing strokes in people who have partial blockages...
A combination of the clot-preventing drug clopidogrel (Plavix) and aspirin was more powerful than aspirin alone in reducing the formation of tiny...
Every year, approximately 750,000 Americans experience strokes. Although quick treatment using clot-busting drugs can sharply reduce the damage caused by a...
Those people who have mini-strokes are at high risk of having a major stroke within a few days. British researchers report that...
Each year, US doctors perform more than 500,000 bypass operations, a comparable number of angioplasty procedures and tens of thousands of...
Wireless communication devices do not appear to interfere with heart pacemakers or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, according to a study conducted at the Mayo...
An operation using only tiny incisions to repair a potentially fatal weakness in the aorta—the largest artery in the body—produced...
A new type of stent that can be absorbed A by the body may revolutionize the way heart disease is treated, according...
Drug-coated stents, the metal tubes surgeons insert to keep arteries open after angioplasty, aren't proving as effective in real-life medical...
Stents coated with a protective drug work better after three years than the older, un coated devices in keeping arteries open and...