It may be a first-line treatment, but acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Tylenol, and other brands) is just about useless when it comes to relief of low back pain. That was the conclusion Australian researchers came to in a review of clinical trials published in the British Medical Journal in [...]
Football is a collision sport designed to wear out the body and mind. By the end of a season the injury rate is around 100 percent.1 However, even if you don’t follow the sport, you may have noticed that there’s a well-known 39-year-old player who seems almost impervious to the [...]
“I would never have thought I could have been staring death in the face because of such a minor problem.” Fortunately, Helen Bolton from Cornwall in the UK survived thanks to an 11½ hour operation just a couple of months ago — December, 2016. The seemingly trivial concern that nearly [...]
Migraine headaches can ruin your life. A debilitating migraine makes you unable to focus on anything besides the horrible pain inside your head. About 37 million Americans suffer migraines. They’re more common among women – about one woman in six gets migraines compared to about one in seven men. And [...]
