A second study shows how older drugs such as aspirin work to prevent heart disease. Both appear in this week's issue of the American Heart Association (news - web sites) journal Circulation.
The COX-2 inhibitors were designed to help treat arthritis pain and similar long-term conditions without the serious stomach side-effects of aspirin and related drugs such as ibuprofen, and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDS.