Is it true? A baby Aspirin daily helps prevent vascular events (MI/Stroke) in all patients.

Bottom Line:

Aspirin decreases the incidence of coronary heart disease in adults who are at increased risk for heart disease. There is also good evidence that aspirin increases the incidence of gastrointestinal bleeding and fair evidence that aspirin increases the incidence of hemorrhagic strokes. There is no evidence of MI prevention with low dose aspirin in general population with no risk factors. Low-dose aspirin prevents stoke events in women >45 years of age. (more…)

Benign Positional Vertigo or Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo is a conditions characterized by feeling dizziness brought on by sudden head movement. You may feel that everything around you is spinning. This feeling is called “vertigo”. You may also feel nauseous with that.

It is thought to be caused by debris which has collected within a part of the inner ear. This debris are small crystals of calcium carbonate derived from a structure in the ear called the “utricle”. Normally, these particles are distributed evenly in the inner ear’s 3 canals. When you move your head, the calcium particles stimulate nerve cells inside the canals. These cells send your brain a signal telling it what direction your head is moving. (more…)

If you want to know how damaging effect smoking can have on your life span, check out this tool at Yahoo Health. This interactive tool can be used to estimate the impact smoking will have on your life span. Based on the number of cigarettes you smoked in the past or how many you will smoke in the future, this tool estimates how many years the damaging effects of smoking may take away from your life.

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You can find an interactive tool at Yahoo Health. This interactive tool measures your readiness to quit smoking. The tool uses the stages of change approach, which is based on research about how people typically make behavior changes. The approach suggests that to make positive change, people must go through distinct stages from not thinking about quitting to actually quitting. Based on your answers, this tool will identify the stage you are in and help you think about what to do next.

Go to the Interactice Tool