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Migralex finally launched – new abortive

by James on 14 December 2009

Dr. Mauskop’s Migralex, a new abortive, was finally announced by Dr. Alexander Mauskop, director and founder of the New York Headache Clinic.
Dr. Mauskop has been working on this one for a long time.  He was also involved in the testing of an excellent preventative medication that we’ve talked about here before, Migrelief.
This abortive contains two [...]

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Caution: Giving Medications to Children

by James on 22 November 2008

Everyone should know that they need to be especially cautious when giving medication to children.  But what special precautions should we take?

I appreciated the reminders from ParentCenter last month entitled Seven medicines you shouldn’t give your child.  There are some excellent reminders there.
Though the authors don’t give hard and fast rules (there are always exceptions), [...]

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Cancer, aspirin and ibuprofen

by James on 6 June 2005

So what’s the story with aspirin and ibuprofen?  First they were telling us that they may have cancer-fighting properties.  But a new study tells a different tale.
The research at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA involved 114,460 women.  The study followed the women from 1995 to 2001, and some interesting discoveries were [...]

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Back to aspirin

by James on 19 May 2005

Most everyone with headaches have tried aspirin at one time or another.  But there have been surprisingly few studies about aspirin and migraine.  An interesting new study headed up by Dr. Richard B. Lipton of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, showed that aspirin can be quite helpful for some people [...]

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