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Is Coated Aspirin Really Better for You?

Posted on 12/10/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthExperts have told us for years that coated aspirin is easier on the stomach, but few have questioned whether that coating might, in fact, reduce aspirin’s heart benefits. Now, though, a new study from the University of Pennsylvania — partly funded by Bayer, a major supplier of safety-coated (also called enteric-coated) aspirin — finds that the coating may reduce or delay aspirin’s effect in the blood. The study, published last week in the journal Circulation, had been designed to discover whether some …

The Four Drugs Most Likely To Send You To The Hospital

Posted on 11/28/2011 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthFour drugs commonly prescribed to seniors — two blood thinners and two diabetes drugs — are the cause of the most emergency hospital visits for Americans over 65, a new study has found. An estimated 100,000 older adults are hospitalized annually for harmful drug reactions, but two-thirds of those hospitalizations are from accidental overdoses of just a handful of familiar medications, according to new research by the CDC’s  Medication Safety Program. And in half of those overdoses, the patient was …