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...than they should, according to a study presented at the American Headache Society's annual meeting last week. In a survey of nearly 700 children and adolescents ages 6 to 18 who had been referred to the Cleveland Clinic because of chronic headaches, 22% were using pain relievers like Advil, Aleve and Tylenol as often as 15 to 20 times a week, and 1 in 7 was taking the medication without telling a parent. Experts caution that overuse of such drugs can lead to "rebound" headaches as well as kidney problems and gastrointestinal bleeding. They suggest that kids take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Painful Relief | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

EMMA THOMPSON: I think Hugh is quite hung over. [Grant, with a box of Advil, groans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Pouring On the Charm | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...your doctor decide that you should start taking low-dose aspirin therapy, be sure you use the right pills. Although there is reason to suspect that other anti-inflammatory drugs, such as Advil and Motrin or the newer COX-2 inhibitors Vioxx and Celebrex, might offer similar protection, only aspirin has been rigorously tested. Tylenol (acetaminophen) is not an anti-inflammatory, so don't expect it to protect you against colon or any other cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preventing Polyps | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

Gwaltney's favorite combo is a curious mix of high-and low-tech treatments: a quick squirt into the nose of the biotech drug interferon, followed by two over-the-counter pills--an anti-inflammatory like ibuprofen (such as Advil or Motrin) and a so-called first-generation antihistamine like chlorpheniramine (such as Chlor-Trimeton). The interferon primes the immune system to unleash its antiviral defenses while the ibuprofen and the chlorpheniramine keep the inflammatory processes under control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Come We Can't Cure The Cold? | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...study, published in yesterday’s Archives of Internal Medicine, concluded that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, found in Advil and Motrin, among other painkillers, and acetaminophen, an ingredient in Tylenol, “were significantly associated with increased risk of hypertension...

Author: By Christine M. Delucia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Links Painkillers, Hypertension | 10/29/2002 | See Source »

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