by Brooke Phenicie, NP-C | Aug 6, 2012 | Headache Drugs
A recent New York Times article reports on how noise in hospitals can affect a patient’s recovery. This is one area that has been somewhat overlooked by hospital staff, but has been a constant complaint of patients. The complaints have been largely ignored by...
by Dr Robbins | Aug 6, 2012 | Headache Drugs
Meditation for many of us can conjure up an image of sitting cross-legged with eyes closed, focusing on the moment. Can we apply the concept of meditation to our everyday lives? Yes, it is possible. When we slow down we can notice the patterns of our mind, which can...
by Dr Robbins | Aug 5, 2012 | Headache Drugs
Patients with chronic daily headache may view the headache situation in black and white terms. They will come back for a return visit and state, “Well, I still have a headache everyday.” They need to accept that if we have gone from moderate-to-severe...
by Dr Robbins | Aug 2, 2012 | Headache Drugs
There is a bill that, I believe, is pending from Congress, which would make it more difficult to obtain meds from Canada, for people in the US. US folks obtaining meds from Canada has a long long history, as in 1900 people in the US were importing aspirin(from the...
by Dr Robbins | Aug 2, 2012 | Headache Drugs
The REMS program is a program that was instituted for one type of opioid; it is paperwork, to be filled out by the patient and physician; now, it looks as if all long-acting opioids will need this REMS paperwork. There are pluses and minuses to this; the plus is...
by Brooke Phenicie, NP-C | Aug 2, 2012 | Headache Drugs
The FDA has just approved an ingestible sensor that will be able to track if patients are taking their medication as prescribed, and at the right time. The maker, Proteus Digital Health, sees this “as a start of an era where digital medicine shifts the care...
