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Duke University Medical Center

Aspirin tablets

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Researchers at Duke Medicine have solved some of the mysteries related to the use of aspirin, and developed a blood-based test of gene activity that has been shown to accurately identify who will respond to the therapy and who is at higher risk for heart attack.

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