While you might pay any amount of money for relief in the middle of a migraine headache, patients and insurance companies alike have their ceilings. That’s why it’s a problem when drug companies take old components and combine them into a “new” drug that isn’t so new at all… if you had just bought those pills separately. [More]
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Excedrin Recall Sends Desperate Migraine Sufferers To eBay
By 7.11.12
Six months ago, production problems at a Novartis plant manufacturing over-the-counter, generic, and veterinary drugs prompted FDA action and a recall of common over-the-counter drugs such as Excedrin, No-Doz, and Gas-X. While generic versions of all of these drugs are commonly available, some Excedrin users don’t find them effective and have been clamoring for the original. Novartis isn’t producing any new Excedrin, and prices on eBay are now nearing $1 per tablet. [More]
Migraine? Try A Big Old Dose Of Aspirin
By 4.22.10
Our healthy friends at Consumer Reports Health have an interesting article today about a new study that shows that a single high dose of aspirin (up to 1000 mg) can work as well as a lower-dose prescription drug. [More]
McDonald's Installs Musical Playgrounds, Wants You To Kill Self
By 12.7.09
The always informative QSR magazine informs us that McDonald’s is “adding music to its children’s PlayPlace with a new music-themed interactive play area for children that combines play with the musical arts.” [More]
