A recent study conducted in U.K. warns healthy people that taking an aspirin a day to prevent strokes or heart attacks does more harm than good because it almost doubles the risk of internal bleeding while having no effect on heart attacks or strokes.
‘We know that a small daily dose of aspirin can reduce the risk of a heart attack in people with angina and in those who’ve had a heart attack.” said Professor Peter Weissberg from the British Heart Foundation.
The study involved 3550 middle aged men and women with …

Scientists from University of Siena conducting experiments using human cells discovered that simvastatin, a hypolipidemic drug used to control cholesterol, may impact our immune system in a negative way.
Research suggests that simvastatin impairs the ability of macrophages, white blood cells specialized in innate and adaptive immunity, to kill pathogens and also enhances production of cytokines which trigger and sustain inflammation.
“Statins are key drugs in the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease,” said Cosima T. Baldari, Ph.D., a scientist from the Department of Evolutionary Biology at the University of …