ALTHOUGH acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) has been in extensive clinical use since 1900, there is surprisingly little known with accuracy about the kinetics of absorption, metabolism, distribution and ...

45 drug-nutrient interactions (DNIs) that modify micro-nutritional status, particularly focusing on how acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and warfarin may affect patients through various mechanisms.

Besides the general toxic effects of acetylsalicylic acid, idiosyncrasy to the drug has been observed in some allergic persons. In these cases the symptoms are evoked by small amounts and consist ...

FEW drugs have such a wide clinical use and acceptance as acetylsalicylic acid. Gerhardt 1 synthesized this substance in 1853, but it remained for Hoffman, a chemist at Bayer's chemical works at ...

In an early (1966) biosynthetic process, researchers at Kerr-McGee Oil Industries (now part of Andarko Petroleum) prepared salicylic acid via the microbial degradation of naphthalene. It is now ...