http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Low-dose aspirin is a cheap and effective way to prevent potentially deadly blood clots in the leg or the lungs in patients who have had a previous blood clot, a new study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-aspirin-viable-treatment-recurrent-blood.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 05 Nov 2012 07:30:40 EST news271323030 Daily low dose aspirin could slow the decline in brain power among elderly women at high risk of heart disease, indicates observational research published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-aspirin-temper-brain-power-decline.html Medications Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:30:04 EST news268504639 Among nearly 200,000 individuals, daily use of low-dose aspirin was associated with an increased risk of major gastrointestinal or cerebral bleeding, according to a study in the June 6 issue of JAMA. The authors also found that patients with diabetes had a high rate of major bleeding, irrespective of aspirin use. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-major-low-dose-aspirin-patients-diabetes.html Medical research Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:00:01 EST news258113949 Niacin, or vitamin B3, is the one approved drug that elevates "good" cholesterol (high density lipoprotein, HDL) while depressing "bad" cholesterol (low density lipoprotein , LDL), and has thereby attracted much attention from patients and physicians. Niacin keeps fat from breaking down, and so obstructs the availability of LDL building blocks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cautions-drugs-block-niacin-flush.html Medical research Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:16:06 EST news253185340 A collection of three papers (two published in The Lancet and one in The Lancet Oncology) add to the growing evidence base suggesting that daily aspirin can be used to help prevent and possibly treat cancer. All three papers are by Professor Peter M Rothwell, University of Oxford and John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and colleagues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-aspirin-cancer-evidence.html Cancer Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:30:01 EST news251480686