by Sue Robbins | Nov 28, 2014 | Headache Drugs
This article, written by Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, Medical Director, New York State Office of Mental Health seems to make a lot of sense…. Ninety-seven healthy girls, ages 10 to 14, had saliva DNA samples taken. About half of them had moms with histories of...
by Sue Robbins | Nov 25, 2014 | Headache Drugs
According to a new review published in The Cochrane Library, only about half of all patients who are prescribed medication that they administer themselves actually take their medication as prescribed. Many stop taking their medications all together, and others...
by Sue Robbins | Nov 24, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Dr. Robbins came across this article recently, and thought you might enjoy it. Here is a portion of it….. Medicine is about 18% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product, and surgery makes up a very substantial part of that. If surgery is a third of medicine on a dollar...
by Sue Robbins | Nov 21, 2014 | Headache Drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new hydrocodone tablet that’s designed to help prevent abuse. The FDA said that the newly approved Hysingla ER (hydrocodone bitartrate) is an extended-release tablet to treat pain severe enough to...
by Sue Robbins | Nov 20, 2014 | Headache Drugs
According to a new study from NYU Langone Medical Center/New York University School of Medicine a mother’s ‘TLC’ can help soothe pain and may also impact early brain development by altering gene activity in a part of the brain involved in emotions....
by Sue Robbins | Nov 18, 2014 | Headache Drugs
New research shows that emotional stress is more likely to physically impact younger women with heart disease compared to men with heart disease. “Women who develop heart disease at a younger age make up a special high-risk group because they are...