by Sue Robbins | Oct 31, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Sumatriptan delivered in an electric patch form applied to the skin was approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) IN 2013 for the acute treatment of migraine. The iontophoretic sumatriptan patch is anticipated to become available in the U.S. in early or...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 30, 2014 | Headache Drugs
As the days get shorter, and the nights longer in late autumn, some people begin to develop a kind of depression called seasonal affective disorder (SAD) which can last through the winter months. Some symptoms of SAD include an inability to concentrate, loss of...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 29, 2014 | Headache Drugs
In a study conducted at Columbia University Medical Center, healthy people, ages 50 to 69, who drank a mixture high in antioxidants called cocoa flavanols for 3 months performed better on a memory test than people who drank a low-flavanol mixture. Dr. Scott A. Small,...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 28, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Nearly half of Americans say they check nutrition labels on packaged foods at the grocery store. Do we understand what all the numbers mean to our health? The New York Times Health and Aging writer Jane Brody tells us about a planned revision by the F.D.A. on food...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 22, 2014 | Headache Drugs
The Food and Drug Administration often recalls dietary supplements that contain banned substances. A new study, published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association found that dozens of supplements that had been pulled from shelves after they were found...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 21, 2014 | Headache Drugs
New research has found that increasing fatty fish intake may be a way to improve the response rate among depressed patients who have not found antidepressants to be beneficial. Said lead researcher Roel Mocking, “we were looking for biological alterations that...
