NSAIDs (Advil, Aleve, Vioxx...) increases risk of first heart attack

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In the case of NSAIDs we must carefully consider a class of medication that does not have long term placebo controlled testing, is only moderately better in symptom relief over placebo, conservatively causes 293 hospitalizations and 45 deaths each day from gastrointestinal bleeding, and greatly increases the chance of having a heart attack.

SOURCE: European Heart Journal, May 2006; British Medical Journal (BMJ), 2006; Canadian Medical Association Journal, November 2002; American Journal of Medicine, July 1998; The New England Journal of Medicine, June 1999; Documentary: Prescription for Disaster

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