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Tylenol Over Use Can Be Fatal by Len Saputo, MD
12/1/2011 10:23:53 PM - Repeated doses of slightly too much Tylenol can be fatal. These patients had a higher fatality rate than single doses taken as a suicidal attempt. It take about 15 grams of a single dose to lead to li...
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Preventing Strokes: Aspirin, Plavix, Coumadin, Pradaxa, or What?
2/9/2012 11:50:24 PM - A large clinical trial testing the effects of aspirin and Plavix to prevent small strokes was stopped because there was no added benefit by combining these drugs and the risk of bleeding was too high....
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NSAIDs Lethal in Heart Attack Survivors
9/18/2012 11:28:47 PM - An article in Circulation posted in September of 2012 showed that NSAIDs after a heart attack cause a 60% increase in mortality and 40% increase in risk for heart attack. They also increase the risk f...
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Do Familial Precancerous Polyps Predict Colon Cancer?
5/23/2012 1:22:51 AM - When do you need a colonoscopy? An article in Annals of Internal Medicine in May of 2012 stated that there's insufficient evidence to recommend earlier or more frequent colonoscopies for people who ha...
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