If you suffer from headaches and migraines, you can ease your pain without resorting to prescription drugs or over-the-counter medications that often have side effects. For thousands of years, acupuncture and Chinese Herbal medicines have been used...
Americans are worried. Approximately 20–40 million Americans have some form of diagnosable anxiety disorder, another 40 million have trouble with alcohol or drugs, mostly taken to reduce anxiety, and 47 million smoke. The “worried well” represent a...
It is very good to meet you, Susan. Yoga has definitely moved into the mainstream, along with healthy aging which is coming to the forefront of baby boomers’ thinking. Can you tell me how you first came to yoga? I discovered yoga while I was...
And speaking of new drugs, murmurs in the press have arisen about side effects of Glaxo's new wonder migraine drug sumatriptan on the eve of its launch in the UK. ...
Migraine sufferers are widely prescribed sumatriptan, either orally or by injection. A recent study from the Netherlands (Cephalalgia, 1996; 16: 554-9), however, has shown that 24 per cent of p ...
Two cases one in Switzerland and one in the US of haemorrhagic stroke only hours after injections of sumatriptan have recently been reported. ...
Eletriptan is one of the newer breed of triptans for treating migraine, following in the wake of the more famous sumatriptan. It's cheaper, and is more effective than oral sumatriptan and a recent ...
Sumatriptan, a drug frequently prescribed for migraines, may pose a significant threat to babies when taken during pregnancy. ...
All classes of antidepressants are dangerous for the elderly to take, and will greatly increase their risk of a fall and fracturing a hip, new research has found. ...
Women who suffer from migraines are nearly 17 times more likely to have a stroke if they are also on the Pill, new research has discovered. ...
Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
Martin L. Rossman MD
What Doctors Don't Tell You