Popping a single daily pill from our 50s onwards could prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes, according to ...
The NHS could prevent thousands more heart attacks and strokes every year by offering everyone in the UK aged 50 and over a single "polypill" combining a statin and three blood pressure lowering drugs ...
A polypill combining statins and blood pressure drugs could prevent 80% of heart attacks and strokes. Research shows it cuts ...
The NHS could prevent thousands more heart attacks and strokes every year by offering everyone in the UK aged 50 and over a ...
The common painkiller aspirin could help prevent cancers spreading by boosting the immune system so it destroys tumour cells, ...
A pivotal study conducted in 2003 presented evidence suggesting that giving everyone older than 55 a polypill could avert ...
According to a landmark study in 2003, a polypill for all over-55s could prevent around 80 per cent of heart attacks and ...
The BMJ previously called the polypill strategy ‘one of the most important contributions to medicine in 50 years’ ...
They pointed to a landmark 2003 paper which estimated that giving all over 55s a polypill containing aspirin, folic acid and ...
Heart attacks and strokes rise exponentially with age and make a major contribution to increasing healthcare costs and lost productivity. In the UK more than 7 million people are living with ...