Credit: Getty Images. Due to her neurologic presentation, age, and past medical history, stroke was initially considered. A recently published report describes the case of a 61-year-old female patient ...

Use of salicylates as therapeutic agents dates back more than 3500 years, when it was recognized that the bark of the willow tree possessed analgesic and antipyretic properties. In 1838, the Italian ...

The best remedy for severe salicylate poisoning is hemodialysis, according to a comprehensive systematic review of the medical literature. Salicylate is an active ingredient in aspirin as well as ...

A 46-year-old female presented to an urban emergency department with complaints of a fall and altered mental status per family. It was reported that the patient had begun to experience nausea and ...

Q: Is it possible to take too much aspirin? Can this hurt you? A: Aspirin has saved as many lives as any other medication. It helps treat and/or prevent heart attacks, stroke and other atherosclerotic ...

For permission requests, please contact NEJM Reprints at [email protected] The sections reveal slight fibrous thickening of the leptomeninges and mild arteriolar thickening, both of long standing. The ...

WASHINGTON --The best remedy for severe salicylate poisoning is hemodialysis, according to a comprehensive systematic review of the medical literature published on Friday in Annals of Emergency ...