Why Aspirin Is No Longer Widely Recommended to Stave Off Heart Attacks
by Beth Skwarecki from Lifehacker on (#5QP8D)
Doctors used to advise people at risk of heart attack to start taking a baby" aspirin (effectively a low-dose aspirin) as a preventative. But that practice has gotten less common over time, and now the US Preventive Services Task Force says that-in many cases-it provides more risk than benefit.