Bad Medical Advice: How Taking an Aspirin a Day for Reported Health Benefits Could Actually Kill You

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Aspirin by Bayer Company. Illustrative editorial photo

by Paul Fassa
Health Impact News

A few decades ago, during the 1970s, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” morphed to “an aspirin a day keeps heart attacks and strokes away.”

This is still a medical mantra today even as science-based evidence has proven otherwise.

Not only does this not work as a preventative measure for cardiac arrest and strokes, the side effects to the gastrointestinal or GI tract can be severe. This is not an opinion.

Several studies and even the FDA have expressed concerns about this approach for a …read more

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