by Sue Robbins | Mar 9, 2014 | Headache Drugs
A government study has found that most people who abuse addictive prescription painkillers get them from friends or relatives, while drug dealers are a relatively infrequent source for those at highest risk for overdoses. Dr. Leonard Paulozzi, a researcher at the...
by Sue Robbins | Mar 6, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Jane Brody, the “Personal Health” columnist for the New York Times seems to always get it right, when writing about pain and health issues. Recently, she shared with her readers that she and her friends, all well into their Medicare years, often joke that...
by Sue Robbins | Mar 6, 2014 | Headache Drugs
A new study suggests that “social” suffering can hurt us in a physical way. The distress caused by, for example, experiencing an injustice, or losing a friend activates brain circuits related to physical pain, according to researchers from The...
by Sue Robbins | Feb 28, 2014 | Headache Drugs
What we may not realize, is that it’s as easy to become dehydrated in winter as well as the summer. Each day the body loses about 8 cups of water, and that fluid needs to be replenished. When you become dehydrated your blood becomes thicker making your heart...
by Sue Robbins | Feb 27, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Boston doctor, Suzanne Koven has increasingly noticed the distracting presence of cell phones in her office when she is talking to patients. She acknowledges it’s a two-way street – the patients’ phones as well as her own can sidetrack the...
by Sue Robbins | Feb 25, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Certain dog breeds, including German shepherds, Doberman pinschers, and Shetland sheepdogs are prone to high rates of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), including licking their paws to the point of injury. Scientists have suspected that some of the same genetic...
