Challenging the belief that aspirin may lead to lethal bleeding in cancer patients suffering from heart attacks, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center researchers said that without aspirin the majority of such patients may die.

The study reported in the journal Cancer found that nine out of 10 cancer patients with thrombocytopenia, low platelet count who were experiencing a heart attack, and who did not receive aspirin died

Patients who have stent insertions should stay on their anti-clotting medications for at least one year after the procedure, according to the American Heart Association Joint Science Advisory.

The panel released the advisory warning to all concerned on Tuesday, which will be published in several medical journals

A new study shows that aspirin appears to reduce the chances of developing asthma. At least that is what happened in a randomized study of 22,071 healthy male physicians. Some took a low dose of aspirin every other day while others took a placebo. Neither group knew which they were taking, but the people in the group that got aspirin were less likely to develop asthma during the course of the study.

The findings of the double-blind Physicians' Health Study appear in the January 2007 issue of the "American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Announcing the dangers and side effects of over-the-counter painkillers such as aspirin, ibuprofen and acetominophen, the Food and Drug Administration announced that these medicines would have to carry labels with strict warnings under a new government proposal.

The proposed warnings would include risks of possible liver failure from acetaminophen and gastrointestinal bleeding from other medicines such as aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen and ketoprofen

In a bid to reduce abortion rates, Britain's leading abortion provider has urged women and young girls to stock up on the "morning-after" pill, in case they have unprotected sex.

The morning after pill, known as Emergency contraception (EC) (also known as Emergency Birth Control (EBC) or postcoital contraception) refers to measures that, if taken after sex, may prevent pregnancy