By the 1950s,new painkiller were on the market. Aspirin was no longer the only way to treat pain and reduce fever. Bayer and Other companies looked for other drugs to make However, in the 1970s they got a surprise. Doctors bpnoticed that patients who were taking aspirin had fewer heart attacks than other people. A British researcher named john vane found the reason aspirin helped to prevent heart attacks. In 1982,he won the Nobel Prize for his research. Doctors started to tell some of their patients to take as pirin every day to prevent heart attacks.