Q. My mother was recently hospitalized because she was fainting and had begun bleeding from the rectum. To control the bleeding, the doctors stopped her Plavix [a blood thinner] and aspirin. Soon afterward we noticed something strange: She became much more lucid, and her memory improved considerably. (Her short-term memory all but disappeared after a stroke about 12 years ago.) … Back to Article
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