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The marketing geniuses at Advil, apparently taking a page out of Bud Light’s playbook, launched the Advil Pain Equity Project to end “systemic pain racism.”

CDC researchers found less addictive over-the-counter drugs, like Advil and Tylenol, are three times more effective than some of their opioid counterparts. No more opiates for chronic pain I guess.

So where have you bought and how? How do you manage it? I somehow cannot wrap my mind around it. Thanks

With flu vaccination season in full swing, research from the University of Rochester Medical Center cautions that use of many common pain killers – Advil, Tylenol, aspirin – at the time of injection may blunt the effect of the shot and have a negative effect on the immune system. Richard P. Phipps, Ph.D., professor of Environmental Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and of Pediatrics, has been studying this issue for years and recently presented his latest findings to an international conference on inflammatory diseases. (http://bioactivelipidsconf.wayne.edu/) “What we’ve been saying all along, and continue to stress, is that it’s probably not a...

There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who think it's perfectly reasonable to strip-search a 13-year-old girl suspected of bringing ibuprofen to school, and the kind who think those people should be kept as far away from children as possible. The first group includes officials at Safford Middle School in Safford, Arizona, who in 2003 forced eighth-grader Savana Redding to prove she was not concealing Advil in her crotch or cleavage. It also includes two judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, who last fall ruled that the strip search did not...

Women taking daily amounts of non-aspirin painkillers -- such as extra-strength Tylenol -- should monitor their blood pressure, doctors say following a new study suggesting a link between the drugs and hypertension. "If you're taking these over-the-counter medications at high dosages on a regular basis, make sure that you report it to your doctor and you're checking your blood pressure," said Dr. Christie Ballantyne, a cardiologist at the Methodist DeBakey Heart Center in Houston who had no role in the study. While many popular over-the-counter painkillers have been linked before to high blood pressure, acetaminophen, sold as Tylenol, has generally...

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<p>Bossier Parish students shouldn't automatically be expelled for one year for having Advil or other over-the-counter drugs at school, according to a Bossier School Board committee.</p> <p>The full 12-member board will vote Thursday on a proposal to ask system officials to clarify board policy outlining that principals have discretion in disciplining students caught with over-the-counter medicine. The board also will consider a number of other recommendations the five-member panel made Tuesday night.</p>

<p>A student expelled from Parkway High for a year for having Advil, an over-the-counter pain reliever, will not be allowed to return to the school.</p> <p>Kelly Herpin and daughter Amanda Stiles, a sophomore, appealed the one-year expulsion to a Bossier Parish School Board committee Thursday night, spending about 10 minutes with the board's administrative committee behind closed doors.</p>

<p>Cedar Rapids, Ia. - The companies whose over-the-counter medicines are used to make methamphetamine should do more to curb the illegal use of their products, several Iowa law enforcement and health officials say.</p> <p>Meth "cooks" use pseudoephedrine, a decongestant found in everything from Sudafed to Advil Cold and Sinus, to make the illegal stimulant. Federal Drug Enforcement Administration agent Rick LaMere suspects the meth epidemic is good business for makers of those legal drugs.</p>