Aspirin
in sentence
39 examples of Aspirin in a sentence
I gave her
aspirin.
When you go from a world where you treated arthritis with aspirin, that mostly didn't do the job, to one where, if it gets bad enough, we can do a hip replacement, a knee replacement that gives you years, maybe decades, without disability, a dramatic change, well is it any surprise that that $40,000 hip replacement replacing the 10-cent
aspirin
is more expensive?
This is not scalable, and also when you do things by hand, even in the best laboratories, you have variations in techniques, and you need to know, if you're making a drug, that the
Aspirin
you're going to take out of the bottle on Monday is the same as the
Aspirin
that's going to come out of the bottle on Wednesday.
Now as I was there, I guess, like a lot of people, I assumed that it was just an
aspirin
for the mind.
The shopkeepers tend to give you things like an onion or an aspirin, or a piece of gum, because they don't have small change.
You swallow an
aspirin.
We give
aspirin
to healthy men to help prevent them from having a heart attack, but do you know that if you give
aspirin
to a healthy woman, it's actually harmful?
Now, it's in this active site that
aspirin
and ibuprofen do their work.
Taking aspirin, which thins the blood, and nitroglycerin, which opens up the artery, can help keep the heart attack from getting worse.
Doctors often prescribe low-dose aspirin, for example, particularly for patients who've already had a heart attack and for those known to be at high risk.
And there have been prevention polypill studies done, giving combinations of statins, blood pressure, aspirin, which in randomized studies have been shown to dramatically reduce risk, compared to placebo.
If I was a doctor, I would tell you to take two aspirin, and call me in the morning.
Now that you’ve warmed up, let’s try a trickier example: a study about the impact of
aspirin
on heart attack risk.
By the end of the trial, the control group suffered significantly more heart attacks than the group that took
aspirin.
Based on this situation, what’s wrong with the headline:
"Aspirin
may reduce risk of heart attacks" In this case, the study shows evidence that
aspirin
reduces heart attacks in men, because all the participants were men.
Or the one who’s on a blood-thinning medication and takes an
aspirin
for a headache?
Blood thinners and aspirin, for example, have similar effects that become dangerous when combined.
Both prevent blood clots from forming— blood thinners by preventing the formation of the clotting factors that hold clots together, and
aspirin
by preventing blood cells from clumping into groups that become clots.
While blood thinners and
aspirin
are generally harmless when taken individually, interactions where one substance exacerbates the effects of another can also take place between drugs that are independently harmful.
Compared to small molecule drugs, and by this I mean regular drugs, like aspirin, biologics are quite large.
Today, we know that the doctors had prescribed aspirin, a drug that worsens hemophilia.
It's exactly equivalent to taking one 325 milligram
aspirin
tablet, throwing it into the middle of Lake Tahoe, and then stirring it up, obviously with a very big stick, and waiting two years or so until the solution is homogeneous.
Look for the elements of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: Dick's womanizing, Perry being an
aspirin
junkie, Perry playing blues guitar.
Then, as he watches the painful transformation of his son into a vampire, the father calmly asks, "Would you like an aspirin?".
The right dose of
aspirin
can be a therapeutic godsend, but consuming too much can be lethal.
Returning to the example of drugs, the question is whether one believes that financial innovation is like aspirin, which generates huge benefits at low risk, or methamphetamine, which stimulates euphoria, followed by a dangerous crash.
Moreover, health care for the elderly in the 1950’s consisted mainly of aspirin, antibiotics, and fluids, with an iron lung in emergencies.
Another simple and effective health-care intervention is to make
aspirin
more widely available, so that it can be taken at the onset of heart attacks to prevent death.
The EU’s argument is similar to advising a man with a gangrenous leg that paying $50,000 for an
aspirin
is a good deal because the cost compares favorably to the cost of inaction, which is losing the leg.
Of course, the
aspirin
doesn’t prevent that outcome.
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