by Sue Robbins | Apr 24, 2015 | Headache Drugs
Each spring, there’s a feeling of happiness on the first warm, sunny days. Coats come off, picnic blankets come out. And stress levels drop, or at least researchers suspect that they do. Research into the antistress benefits of the outdoors is still early, but...
by Sue Robbins | Apr 23, 2015 | Headache Drugs
In a randomized, controlled trial, 85 people took 1,000 milligrams of Tylenol or a placebo. After an hour, researchers showed them several images in random order. The images ranged from extremely pleasant (children laughing in a park with kittens) to neutral (a...
by Sue Robbins | Apr 22, 2015 | Headache Drugs
In 1988, The Food and Drug Administration decided not to require homeopathic remedies to go through the same drug-approval process as standard medical treatments. Now the FDA is revisiting that decision. It will hold 2 days of hearings this week to decide whether...
by Sue Robbins | Apr 20, 2015 | Headache Drugs
A new report in the journal Science finds that the continuous loop of loving connection between dog and owner may begin with the dog’s gaze. Jan Hoffman of the New York Times reports… Japanese researchers found that dogs who trained a long gaze on their...
by Sue Robbins | Apr 19, 2015 | Headache Drugs
The article “Refractory Migraine in a Just World” accurately describes an encounter between a woman with refractory headache and a headache specialist. She is blamed for her headaches (medication overuse headache (MOH), of course, is the diagnosis). This...
by Sue Robbins | Apr 17, 2015 | Headache Drugs
A word on disability. One might think that pain level is the major predictor of disability. It has been shown, in well-done studies, that other factors probably are more important. Catastrophizing, such as thinking one’s headache is always a 14 on a scale of 1...
