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Pharmacists say challenges around sourcing raw ingredients are behind the shortages of over-the-counter children’s fever and pain medication in pharmacies and retail stores across B.C., but they are cautioning parents against stockpiling the products or trying to adjust doses at home. Children’s acetaminophen and ibuprofen products, often referred to by the brand names Advil and …
Read More »Catching monkeypox can mean extreme pain, hospital trips — and weeks of isolation
In late May, not long after he’d gotten through a mild bout of COVID-19, Peter Kelly spiked a sudden fever. He quickly realized it wasn’t the tail end of a COVID infection. Over a period of several days, the Toronto resident became exhausted, and his muscles began to ache. His …
Read More »Women have sucked up the pain of birth control devices for decades, but do they have to?
When she was in her late 20s, Katie O’Byrne heard about a newer product that promised to eliminate all pregnancy risk without needing to remember to take a birth control pill each day. Back in 2010, she paid $450 for the hormonal intrauterine device, or IUD. The tiny T-shaped device — first …
Read More »Canadian study offers important clue to why some back pain becomes chronic
A study conducted by researchers at McGill University and scientists from Italy suggests that blocking inflammation after injury might make that pain chronic — a finding that challenges the standard approach to treating pain. Chronic pain — especially in the lower back — is a common ailment, but scientists don’t know …
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