Task

Searching a variety of the online drug handbooks highlighted in the tutorial, find answers to the following questions. Keep notes of where you found the answers.

1. Taking one aspirin per day is common for people at risk for or who have already experienced a stroke. If your patient had another stroke while taking aspirin as a prophylactic could you, as their physician recommend ticlopidine. Do antacids decrease the effectiveness of this drug? If your patient developed a headache, should he take an aspirin in addition to ticlopidine?

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