It appears that not only does aspirin alleviate pain and ease suffering, but it also hates women:
Men who took aspirin over five years slightly lowered their risk for prostate cancer, but women who took low doses over 10 years didn’t reduce their risk of cancer, two separate studies indicate.
The conflicting results don’t help settle the debate about whether aspirin and similar anti-inflammatory medicines could be used to prevent cancer. Doctors think different study designs and aspirin doses explain the contrasting findings.
”I don’t think we have a final story on aspirin” and its effects on cancer, said Dr. Peter Greenwald, director of cancer prevention at the National Cancer Institute, which helped fund the women’s health study.
Interesting.
BumperStickerist
My guess is, based on the information given, is that women don’t have prostates.
But I’m no medical professional.
Christie S.
Heh…funny!
As a woman, I’ve often wondered why the medical community would suppose that medicines which work on men would work exactly the same on women.
We have different parts, different chemical balances, different hormones, even different DNA structures. Duh…we’re different!
Yes, we are the same species, which means that most meds will have a similar effect on both men and women. No, we aren’t the same internally so therefore, logically speaking, the drugs won’t work exactly the same.
But, thats just my opinion as I’m not a medical professional nor a biogenetic engineer/scientist.
Veeshir
Wait, you mean men and women are different?
Whodathunkit?