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"Today you hear that "aspirin is good for you." The echo, though, is "ching-ching-ching" as profits accrue for the aspirin maker. Tomorrow's report, which tells you that "aspirin causes ulcers," should also carry the echo of "ching-ching-ching" as Nexxium sales rise." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"A more familiar drug with antiglycation properties is aspirin. aspirin inhibits the development of diabetic retinopathy, and a recent study showed that it can inhibit the formation of pentosidine, a glycation end product. Other drugs with antiglycation properties include angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. We'll discuss the antiglycation properties of ACE inhibitors in more detail when we discuss antihypertensive medications." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Because vitamin C promotes the painkilling effects of aspirin while reducing the possibility of aspirin poisoning.121 However, you should not take vitamin C's partnership with aspirin as an excuse to use more aspirin. Studies have also revealed that aspirin greatly reduces vitamin C absorption, and may be conducive to stomach ulcers and perhaps even cancer, because of its anticlotting effect on the blood. PROBLEMS WITH TAKING VITAMIN C Most of us are able to take large doses of vitamin C with no side effects at all." - Gary Null, The Complete Guide to Health and Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The reasoning was that the COX-1 inhibiting activity of naproxen makes platelets less "sticky" (like aspirin, but not to the same extent), potentially decreasing the risk of unwanted blood clots—a property not shared by Vioxx, which is a selective COX-2 inhibitor. Because of this possibility, the research plan called for serious "cardiovascular thrombotic or embolic" complications* to be examined by an independent committee to make sure that the study results were accurate and unbiased." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The Nurses' Health Study researchers statistically adjusted their results for many potentially confounding factors: body weight, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, early heart attack in a parent, history of breast cancer in mother or sister, previous use of birth control pills, number of children, age of onset of period, diet, alcohol use, multivitamin use, vitamin E use, aspirin use, and regular exercise. Despite this meticulous statistical caution, however, the most elegant aspect of the Nurses' Health Study may also have been its tragic flaw." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In 1971 Sir John Vane, working for Burroughs Wellcome in Britain, discovered that aspirin (and all nsaids) inhibited the enzyme cyclooxygenase (cox) that is critical in the biosynthesis of prostaglandins, known chemical mediators of inflammation. No doubt this is a major insight, even though the story is far from over. Vane was awarded a Nobel Prize. Prostaglandins are also involved in maintaining the integrity of the stomach lining, so that inhibition is the explanation for the shallow erosions that come and go in everyone who ingests nsaids, so-called nsaid gastropathy." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Both of the NEJM articles warned that, because of an increased risk of heart attack or cardiovascular complications, patients with a history of cardiovascular disease taking Vioxx should also take prophylactic low-dose aspirin. Neither of the articles, however, gave doctors any idea of the magnitude of this increased risk." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "It seemed to me that the only conclusion that could be reasonably drawn from the data presented was that men under the age of 70 who had suffered a heart attack and were taking aspirin might lower their risk of stroke by taking Pravachol." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"They theorized that a drug that selectively blocked only the enzyme known as Cox-2 would be far less harmful to the stomach than drugs like aspirin. A safer anti-inflammatory drug would be an extraordinary and life-saving breakthrough. Researchers estimated in 1999 that more than sixteen thousand Americans with arthritis were dying every year from stomach ulcers caused by their anti-inflammatory pain pills, roughly the same number as those who died from AIDS. But inside the walls of Merck and Pharmacia, scientists were worried." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"His doctors prescribed cholesterol-reducing medication, aspirin, and a beta-blocker. But the pain persisted. He began walking, instead of running. Even so, through the summer of 2005, he continued to have chest pain. In September of that year, an angiogram revealed multiple blockages in Dick's coronary arteries. The worst was an 80 percent blockage at the origin of the left circumflex and left anterior descending artery." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"In previous studies of naproxen, scientists had not found it had some kind of effect like aspirin, which in some trials has appeared to lower the risk of heart attacks. But Merck now had an explanation for the higher number of heart attacks suffered by patients taking Vioxx in the study. It was one the company would use for years. The battle between Merck and the team of Pharmacia and Pfizer for dominance in the pain market was one of the fiercest and most expensive the industry had ever seen. The government approved Celebrex on the last day of 1998, about five months before it approved Vioxx." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"For example, if you have a fever and take an aspirin, the fever goes away, even though that fever may shorten the duration of an infection. If you have a stuffy nose and take a decongestant, the stuffy nose goes away, even though that stuffiness comes from blood vessels dilated to deliver more white blood cells to an infected area. Complementary medicine usually works much more slowly and gradually with the body's normal physiology. Again, this is a simplification, but it's a pretty accurate one." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"The oil consists primarily of methyl salicylate, one of the ingredients of aspirin. Not surprisingly, then, the leaves have long been used for headaches and other aches and pains, inflammations, and rheumatism. Until 1874 the only commercial source of aspirin was by hydrolysis of the oils from sweet birch bark or wintergreen leaves. A tea of the leaves can be drunk whenever aspirin might be used, such as for colds, coughs, aches, and flu. Wintergreen tea will also stimulate the stomach and respiration, and it is beneficial as a gargle." - Dianne Onstad, Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods (Get the book.)

"Colleen Keith told the Iowa City Press-Citizen that she had taken nothing more than aspirin when she retired fourteen years earlier. Now, at seventy-four, she used a dozen medicines and had struggled recently to pay a four-hundred-dollar medicine bill. "I don't know what to do," she said. "Truly." Between 2000 and 2005 the average number of prescriptions used annually by each Iowan increased by 28 percent, a rise similar to that found across most of the nation." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Suppression of human colorectal mucosal prostaglandins: determining the lowest effective aspirin dose. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 89, 1152-1160. 50. Krishnan, K., Ruffin, M. T., and Brenner, D. E. (1998). Clinical models of chemoprevention for colon cancer. Hem. One. Clin. N. Am. 12, 1079-1113. 51. Selhub, J., and Miller, J. W. (1992). The pathogenesis of homocysteinemia: interruption of the coordinate regulation by 5-adenosylmethionine of the remethylation and transsul-furation of homocysteine. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 55, 131-138. 52. Kim, Y. I., Fawaz, K., Knox, T., Lee, Y. M., Norton, R., Arora, S." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"After all, aspirin was originally derived from willow bark, and the anticancer chemothera-peutic agent Taxol was derived from the bark of the Pacific yew tree. Natural products can be very potent indeed, and some natural products are turning out to have a surprisingly profound effect in helping to quell an overenthusiastic autoimmune response. Supplements and vitamins that are currently being studied in autoimmune disease research include: ANTIOXIDANTS. In the normal process of metabolism, cells produce unstable oxygen molecules. These unstable molecules—known as free radicals—damage cells." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Familia / Family: SOLANACEAE Partes usadas / Plant part used: Toda la planta, fresca - Whol plant, fresh Administracion / Administration: Oral Preparation / Preparation: Cocida con aziicar y aspirina - Co oked, taken with aspirin and sugar Usos / Uses: Rinones, Fiebre de chucaque, Vomito, Verguenza - Kidneys, Hangover fever, Vomiting, Shame Arco Iris, Flor de Quinde Streptosolen jamesonii (Benth.) Miers Familia / Family: SOLANACEAE Partes usadas / Plant part used: Toda la planta, fresca - Whole plant, fresh Administracion / Administration: 1. Topica - Topical. 2." - Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon, Plants of Longevity, The Medicinal Flora of Vilcabamba (Get the book.)

"In the lowest-spending regions, by contrast, more than 83 percent of heart attack patients went home with their baby aspirin. Only 48 percent of patients in high-spending regions were given a flu vaccination, compared with 60 percent in the low-spending regions. Major teaching hospitals, which are considered the creme de la creme of American medicine, were only a little better than most, and on only a few quality measures. Hospitals that spent more and were overtreating patients with certain kinds of care were simultaneously undertreating them." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Massachusetts) of nearly 90,000 women, spanning 18 years, shows a 58% increased risk of pancreatic cancer when the participants took more than two aspirin a week. When the dosage exceeded 14 pills a week, the risk increased by 86%. Avoid the Drug Trap! It is becoming increasingly apparent that pharmaceutical drugs carry great risks. They kill at least 100,000 people in the U.S. each year. This figure could be much higher because only a fraction of drug-caused deaths are actually being reported by medical professionals." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"We have emphasized this critical point before, but it bears repeating: Synthetically inhibiting COX-2 does nothing for platelet stickiness, so synthetic COX-2 inhibitors do not fully replace NSAIDS, like aspirin. On the other hand, "comprehensiveness" is the middle name of each of the featured herbs. They are, as we have explained, multi-tasking. Therefore, taking an herb like oregano reduces inflammation, reduces platelet stickiness, and does not cause bleeding or ulcers." - Thomas M. Newmark and Paul Schulick, BEYOND aspirin Nature's Answer To Arthritis, Cancer & Alzheimer's Disease (Get the book.)

"The echo, though, is "ching-ching-ching" as profits accrue for the aspirin maker. Tomorrow's report, which tells you that "aspirin causes ulcers," should also carry the echo of "ching-ching-ching" as Nexxium sales rise. Couple the impact of "news reports" with the revenues for commercial advertisements, and it is hard to believe that media presents truthful and unbiased reporting Finally, and with apologies to the "court," it must be stated that Big Pharma, with piles of money, has finally turned its attention to the last bastion of government integrity." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"It is fair to say that every person who has ever taken an aspirin or a traditional NSAID is a prime candidate for "the revolution of COX-2 inhibitors." Although clinical results are obviously preliminary, and many of the early studies have yet to be published, it is appropriate to acknowledge that Celebrex and Vioxx appear to offer relief from pain and inflammation that is similar to traditional NSAIDS (about a 70% efficacy rate), with a decreased incidence of the unwelcome side effects associated with those NSAIDS." - Thomas M. Newmark and Paul Schulick, BEYOND aspirin Nature's Answer To Arthritis, Cancer & Alzheimer's Disease (Get the book.)

"It was the forerunner of aspirin, a chemical drug first produced in 1899. Salicylic acid has many of the same analgesic and anti-inflammatory actions as aspirin. It inhibits prostaglandin production, relieves pain, and soothes fevers. Unlike aspirin, it does not thin the blood. Nor does it irritate the stomach lining — a common side effect of aspirin. Traditional & Current Uses ¦ Past uses White willow is astringent and was formerly used to staunch internal bleeding." - Andrew Chevallier, The Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"This announcement was welcomed by the popular press as the long-awaited invention of a "safe aspirin." The medical community was optimistic about Celebrex being a revolutionary advance in arthritis pain relief, and Wall Street hailed the drug as the next Viagra? with potential annual sales estimated to be in the $5 billion range. There have been reports that in the first eleven months of Celebrex's introduction, over twelve million prescriptions for the drug were written, and it is anticipated that there will be eighteen million prescriptions written in the year 2000." - Thomas M. Newmark and Paul Schulick, BEYOND aspirin Nature's Answer To Arthritis, Cancer & Alzheimer's Disease (Get the book.)

"According to this study's results, ginger prevents clotting better than aspirin. Gingerol and paradol, two ginger phytochemicals, have been found to have powerful anti-inflammatory activity. Green tea contains catechins (notably, epigallocatechin-3-gallate, or EGCG) that reduce biochemical markers of heart disease and inhibit the oxidation of LDL cholesterol. EGCG has enormous antioxidant and antiinflammatory power and inhibits prostate cancer growth and COX-2 in animal and test-tube studies." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"And are they any better at delivering the treatments that are considered the most effective—a prescription for heart attack patients to take an aspirin a day, for instance, and flu shots? Are they making sure their female patients get regular Pap smears, and do they take steps to ensure that surgical patients don't contract infections? Physicians and hospitals are so wedded to the notion that more dollars buy better care that despite thirty years of data, the Dartmouth group's findings had gained only grudging acceptance." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Aspirin Use The use of substantial amounts of aspirin for relieving aspartame-associated headache invited other complaints. aspirin and various salicylates can irritate the inner-ear (eighth cranial) nerve. They therefore may induce dizziness, ringing of the ears, or hearing loss. aspirin also can cause severe gastrointestinal irritation and may aggravate reactive hypoglycemia. Continued Aspartame Use Further evidence for a quasi-addiction to aspartame products emerged from this aspect of my study." - H.J. Roberts, M.D., Aspartame (Nutrasweet) - Is It Safe? (Get the book.)

"In phase one, hospitals receive a small bonus for monitoring their own performance on seventeen measures of quality Most hospitals are now checking such things as what percentage of diabetics receive an eye exam once a year and how often heart attack patients are given instructions to take aspirin or a prescription for beta-blockers. More performance measures will be added to the list as the plan progresses. In phase two, hospitals will be paid another small bonus for actually improving their scores on each measure. Hospitals that are below average will eventually be fined." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"This group of doctors was divided into four subgroups: The first group received placebos; the second group received only aspirin; the third group received only beta-carotene; and the fourth group received both beta-carotene and aspirin. After five years, researchers found that the doctors who took only beta-carotene experienced no change in heart attack risk. The aspirin-only doctors lowered their risk of heart attack by 40 percent. But the doctors who took both beta-carotene and aspirin had zero heart attacks in five years." - The Editors of Prevention Health Books, and William P. Castelli M.D., Cholesterol Cures: More Than 325 Natural Ways to Lower Cholesterol and Live Longer from Almonds and Chocolate to Garlic and Wine (Get the book.)

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