Aspirin: 4,000 years and still learning

[摘要] A spirin (acetylsalicylic acid) and its progenitors are valuable medicationswith a history spanning at least 4 millennia.An enormous number of patients take aspirinfor a variety of reasons, and managing theirtherapy around the time of surgery can bechallenging, as Drs. Prabhakaran and Whinney discuss in this issue.1 Even after 4,000 years, we are still learning about these remarkable drugs.

[学科分类] 卫生学