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Aspirin finds another medical frontier in Australian study

 

It started out as a humble painkiller, and was then identified as a soldier in the fight against heart attacks and strokes -- and now aspirin may have a role in fighting dementia.

An Australian university has been commissioned by the U.S.- based National Institutes of Health to investigate the humble medicine's anti-dementia powers.

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