"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
The study highlighed in this article does not test aspirin's effect on heart attacks and strokes. It measured urine samples for a metabolic byproduct of a protein called thromboxane which is involved in clot formation. It is true that aspirin inhibits thromboxane formation. We don't know, however, if the excretion of thromboxane byproducts in the urine relates to the risk of heart attacks or strokes. All this study really shows is that people metabolize aspirin at different rates. That's no shock. We aren't assembly line products after all, and the human body isn't a well-regulated machine. We are distinct individuals, even down to our metabolisms posted by Sydney on
3/29/2002 07:37:00 AM
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