OMRF scientists find potential life-saving use for aspirin

The solution to a rare but debilitating and often fatal blood disease may be as close as your medicine cabinet, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists have discovered. Researchers in the lab of OMRF scientist Lijun Xia, M.D., Ph.D., found that lowdosage aspirin could prevent acute attacks of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, or TTP, in mouse models. The findings were published…