The active ingredient in HeadOn, a roll-on headache treatment, is potassium dicromate, which is used in developing photos and should not come into contact with skin, according to Larry Newman, MD, director of the Roosevelt Headache Institute in Manhattan. HeadOn is an OTC product and…
Savvy patients arrive at their doctors’ offices, printouts in hand and ideas about treatment in mind. Whether they want to try a new therapy they’ve read about, question their diagnoses or avoid a drug because of its side effects, these patients have ruffled some feathers…
Taking meds exactly as prescribed may have a placebo effect of its own. An analysis of 21 clinical trials shows that whether participants took the active drug or a placebo, those who took the drugs as prescribed had 44% fewer deaths than those who didn’t…
Terri of Wind Lost blogged this week about her attempt at trying to find food triggers. She followed the recommendations in Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain, by David Buchholz, and in this post describes the outcome. Some people…
There is never enough time for me to post about all that I want to write about. And there’s been a ton of headache news lately. Here are some highlights. Detailed Results of Trexima Studies (the drug isn’t named in the study, but it looks…