Word: aspirins
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...exports of meat and wheat to Iran, which this year will total $140 million. Similarly, Iran is importing eggs from Turkey, poultry from Rumania and rice from Thailand. Tehran is making up for the cutoff of U.S. medicines by buying some 600 pharmaceutical items from Japan, ranging from aspirin to antibiotics. It is importing U.S.-manufactured oil-drilling equipment from Rumania and could obtain spare automobile parts from a General Motors Corp. assembly plant in any third country. True, the shops in Tehran may no longer be able to stock imported items like detergents, disposable diapers and tooth paste...
Here on the center shelves are the prosaic items, toothbrushes and toothpaste, utilitarian, kid-proofed bottles of aspirin, razor blades, wart-burning solutions, hemorrhoid suppositories, the banal soaps of everyday for people who use soap to get clean. You notice the preponderance of American trochees: Colgate, Ben-Gay, Right Guard, Band Aids, Q-TIPS...
Doctors are also enthusiastic about a substance that inhibits the aggregation of platelets and may reduce the risk of spasm-that old standby called aspirin...
...last July, Sider took a flying leap into another Army experience: paratrooper training at the Fort Benning Airborne School. Says he: "I was terrified that this 46-year-old geriatric case would collapse on a two-mile run and never get up, so every night I dosed myself with aspirin and liniment. In the end, I had massive shin splints and my paratrooper wings, of which I am inordinately and shamelessly proud...
...together with other drugs, such as monoamine oxidase inhibitors (antidepressants) or indomethacin (an antiarthritic), can induce severe episodes of hypertension. There has also been a case of kidney failure in a woman who had been taking a PPA preparation for a few weeks along with a few tablets of aspirin and acetaminophen...