Did you know that October is Talk About Prescriptions Month? Neither did I until I read it on About.com’s headache page. This year’s theme is the 3 Rs of prescriptions: risk, respect and responsibility. With the daily cocktail of preventives and buffet of abortives that…
Men who use analgesics are not likely to be at a greater risk of high blood pressure than those who don’t, according to a study in the Sept. 12 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Although the original analysis of the same data did…
When chronic pain gets so bad that patients head to the emergency room for treatment, many of them leave the ER in pain and angry. Patients feel that they have been ignored, reprimanded, dismissed and degraded. A preliminary study on how how ER docs and…
As if there weren’t enough evidence that painkillers are bad for us, an article in the August issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology attributes about one-third of hospitalizations and deaths related to gastrointestinal bleed to the use of aspirin and NSAIDs (like ibuprofen and…
Women who take more than 400 milligrams of ibuprofen (or other NSAIDs) or 500 milligrams of acetaminophen per day have an increased risk of high blood pressure than those who do not take the meds, found a study that will be published in the September…