a magic pill

Another interesting report on the TV news this morning - it seems that taking a baby aspirin every day (preferably the coated kind) not only protects against heart disease which we've know for some time, but also seems to prevent or minimize several kinds of cancer.  Who knew?  I guess this medicine, that has been around in one form or another for 2000+ years doesn't get the credit or press it deserves because A. it's not very expensive and B. pharmaceutical companies can't make huge profits from selling it.  It also doesn't have a very exotic or impressive sounding name. Consider three old cronies comparing notes about their ailments. "I'm taking Xzanipsocolit 3 times a day" says one. . "That's nothing" says the second " I take seven different medicines, none of which I can pronounce."  "Oh," says the third "I take one baby aspirin every morning."  Sorry, just not very impressive. Of course, if you don't care about impressing, just being healthy, go buy some baby aspirin,