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Dose of aspirin in the hopes of preventing heart attack and stroke, but now scientists say that they see little benefit for most healthy people and they are worried about the risk of bleeding in the stomach or brain as patients get older. lets bring in the executive vice chairman of the department of emergency medicine at massachusetts general hospital. doctor, so nice to have you back on "early start." help me out here, why the 180 in this recommendation after years of doctors suggesting that p...

Sudden this morning after listening to laura and me. >> because im about to call my mom and tell her to cut it out. >> dont do that. have her call up her clinician, the person who talks to her about her individual risk for heart attacks and strokes. and make that decision together. >> so maybe perhaps dont listen to her daughter who is not a physician. you probably heard the news that the vice president has tested positive for covid-19. the white house says that she is being treated with this dr...

But here the u.s. preventive services task force, as a panel of clinicians that gets together to not talk about what you do after something happens but what we can do to prevent disease. and what they came out with is the fact that for healthy people, not people who have had heart attack, not people who have had strokes, but for healthy people over the age of 60 who have been taking aspirin to prevent disease, well, because of the bleeding risks, because your body has a harder time forming blood...

Thank you. tonight, a major reversal by an influential physician advisory task force on who should take an aspirin a day to prevent heart attacks and strokes. cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook is here to explain. good to have you, dr. lapook. why was this change recommended? >> for years theres been a gradual evolution of guidance about who should be taking low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke. we have seen a shift away recommending it because of the risk,...

An hours drive away from her house. i thought, well, its difficult to extract them from that situation. the fighting is coming nearer, there are reports of explosions and shelling in different parts of ukraine. will i ever see them again? hearing about his desperate plight, a bbc breakfast viewer, and separately, a listener to bbc podcast ukrainecast, offered to help. ukrainian student anastasia arranged for an ambulance to take irina, who cant speak or sit up after having two strokes, and alla,...

Because when my mother told me that the fighting was getting closer, there were explosions and flashes in the sky, the front lines are literally an hours drive away from her house. i thought, well, its difficult to extract them from that situation. the fightings coming nearer, there are reports of explosions and shelling in different parts of ukraine. will i ever see them again? hearing about his desperate plight, a bbc breakfast viewer, and separately, a listener to bbc podcast ukrainecast, off...

Very symbolic, right? it is a boost to ukrainian morale, but there are fears the sinking will have rattled russia and may mean even more aggression. lets go live now to anna foster whos in kozarovychi, north of kyiv. shejoins us now. what do she joins us now. what do we know about this attack on what the russian claim was a missile production facility? we russian claim was a missile production facility? we have seen throu~hout production facility? we have seen throughout this _ production facili...

And, clearly, the picture that is emerging at the moment, we are failing. we are failing miserably. jean, who is now 87, had been active in her retirement until a series of strokes left her paralysed. but after catching a virus, she waited more than 11 hours for an ambulance and then another 31 hours on a trolley in a&e. her son was shocked by what he saw. i appreciate that a&e departments have always been busy, but ijust wasnt prepared for what greeted me at the hospital. there were patients on...

Its elderly, its vulnerable, its poorly people, and clearly the picture that is emerging at the moment, we are failing, we are failing miserably.— moment, we are failing, we are failing miserably. jean, who is now 87, had been _ failing miserably. jean, who is now 87, had been active _ failing miserably. jean, who is now 87, had been active in _ failing miserably. jean, who is now 87, had been active in her- 87, had been active in her retirement until a series of strokes left her paralysed, bu...

Were disgraceful delays getting emergency treatment. its 2022, i dont know whether its outdated but i have this concept that you judge a society by the way it looks after its elderly, its vulnerable, its poorly people, and clearly the picture that is emerging at the moment, we are failing, we are failing miserably. jean, who is now 87, had been active in her retirement until a series of strokes left her paralysed, but after catching a virus she waited more than 11 hours for an ambulance and then...