Corbin Bernsen

You can't just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, 'I took my aspirin so I'm not going to have a heart attack.' It's really important each person take personal responsibility for their health. You can't keep thinking that someone else is going to take care of it. You have to be part of the solution.

American Actor

Mo Ibrahim

After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem.

Sudanese Businessman

David H. Murdock

No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.

American Businessman

Gore Vidal

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

American Novelist

John Barrymore

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

Christopher Bond

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

British Playwright

Gloria Estefan

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

American Musician

Steven Gundry

The rule of thumb is, if you feel chest pains, chew on an aspirin to thin the blood rapidly.

American Author

Peter Tork

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

Eric Davis

American Athlete

Aspirin is often mentioned when talking about relieving minor pain or discomfort.

Pain Relief

Aspirin is widely recognized and available over the counter in many drug stores.

Common Medicine

Use of aspirin isn't advised for children due to the risk of Reye's syndrome.

Not For Children

Sometimes 'Aspirin' with a capital A refers to a specific brand rather than the drug in general.

Brand Identity

Over time, 'aspirin' has become a generic term for similar over-the-counter pain relievers.

Generic Term

The term 'aspirin' is no longer a protected trademark in many countries, used generically.

Trademark Loss

 Some take place when two substances’ effects influence each other directly. In other cases, one substance effects how the body processes another, like how it is absorbed, metabolized, or transported around the body. Blood thinners and aspirin, for example, have similar effects that become dangerous when combined.

The dangers of mixing...

 Now as I was there, I guess, like a lot of people, I assumed that it was just an aspirin for the mind. You get stressed, you do some meditation. I hadn't really thought that it could be sort of preventative in nature, until I was about 20, when a number of things happened in my life in quite quick succession,

All it takes is 10...

 They're the fastest way to get to a hospital. Taking aspirin, which thins the blood, and nitroglycerin, which opens up the artery, can help keep the heart attack from getting worse. In the emergency room, doctors can diagnose a heart attack. They commonly use an electrocardiogram

What happens during a...

 Soon, aspirin became synonymous with acetylsalicylic acid. As its influence grew, aspirin was found to ease not just pain, but also many inflammation-related problems, like rheumatoid arthritis, pericarditis, which enflames the fluid-filled sack around the heart,

How aspirin was...

 existed around the world in cultures. Oh, you chew on this bark and that gets rid of your headache. Well, what got rid of your headache? So you find out what's in the bark. Right. And there's this molecule that becomes what we today call aspirin.

Anthony Bourdain and...

 soldiers that were working for coconut Mota and these people are in a hospital deep in that rebel territory and they're waiting for drugs there wasn't even an aspirin in this hospital when I took this picture and that's really the the

The Power of Photography...

 different story he wanted it bad he wrote to every major minor any label will pay let us be on your label this desperate to be the biggest rock star in the world absolute aspirin but he made it look like it was a thrust upon him

Nirvana in the Nineties...

 and so aren't as good at determining that in women. And then if we think about the medications -- common medications that we use, like aspirin. We give aspirin to healthy men to help prevent them from having a heart attack,

Why Medicine Often Has...

 When you go from a world where you treated arthritis with aspirin, that mostly didn't do the job, to one where, if it gets bad enough, we can do a hip replacement, a knee replacement that gives you years, maybe decades,

How do we heal medicine?...

 So when I said earlier that cohousing is an antidote to isolation, what I should have said is that cohousing can save your life. If I was a doctor, I would tell you to take two aspirin, and call me in the morning.