Aspirin: Is it really the wonder drug people claim it to be?

Aspirin: Is it really the wonder drug people claim it to be?

1. Aspirin's History

   • Where did it all begin
     • Tale: it key ingredient comes from certain plants.
     • How far does its active ingredient date back, maybe not in the form of aspirin but in its natural form.
   • How it was first made?
     • Date
     • Scientists who play a necisary role in the formation or played a role in formation of another that lead to Aspirins formations.
     • Has the method changed when compared to production of modern day Aspirin?
   • Politics and Buisness
     • After being made was it an easy road to get it on the shelf?
     • How does the legal side behind drugs work
     • When it comes to drugs is it about profit or helping people?
     • Has its ability to help people been affected due to world problems, politics or business.

2. How is Aspirin made.

   • Incoparate making asprin yourself within chemistry.
     • Include method and tests to check purity
     • Test its purity????
   • Look into past and present methods and see if they differ,
     • If the same then it shows that it is the best it can be or someone needs to come up with a method to do it better
     • Look at percentage and atom economy from both times and see how its changed, if for the better?
     • If it has changed what has these changes done to improve it/
   • Look into Royal Society of Chemistry for documents

3. Uses

   • Look into recent studies
     • University post graduate research
     • Academic Journals
   • Future development as to what they may think it will help
     • Research currently taking place on uses of aspirin.
   • How does it have so many uses with just having a simple chemical foumal
     • Academic Journals
   • Statistics
     • Percentage that use Aspirin compared to other leading brands.
     • Is it always used to its full ability.
       • Do people take it just to reduce pain or do more people use it for its less well known uses.
     • How the use of Aspirin differs between age ranges and genders.
     • Is there people who take aspirin daily or not at all.
   • By a box of Aspirin see what it says?

4. Side Affects

   • Can a drug that is classed as being the wonder drug not have any side affects.
     • Look into research carried out that has resulted in failures due to side affects.
     • See if there is any animal testing
     • Look at the first trials completed with aspirin.
   • By Aspirin and read the side affects on the box.
   • Look and see if there are any ethical issues behind the drug.
   • Statistics
     • How many in a year have large side effect issues from Aspirin
       • If any how many deaths are caused by Aspirin a year.