Yet again, the claims of the pharmaceutical industry in the service of marketing more pills have come up short.
Seems there’s no benefit for otherwise healthy people to take aspirin as a preventive measure against stroke or heart attack. But there is a doubling of the risk of haemmorage.
Gorilla isn’t troubled: “Other than alcohol, and of course the studies aren’t very comforting on that one, there’s very little good in self-medication, but advertising still works great on the bottom line!”
