[mark-r]

I've always wondered if the reason a daily aspirin prevents heart attacks isn't because it prevents clotting, but because it's an anti-inflammatory.

[flowerlad]

If true then aspirins may be just as useful as statins while being cheaper and safer. (But you won't see anyone funding a clinical trial to prove this, any time soon!)

[mark-r]

If you can't patent it, you can't fund it. I don't know if aspirin ever had a patent, but if it did it ran out 100 years ago.