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Welcome to the great American two-career family and pass the aspirin, please. Dual paychecks, the norm in U.S. marriages today, may provide a better standard of living, but for a large number of couples they also contribute to twin headaches. Many family counselors say their practices are now largely devoted to couples who cannot reconcile three often conflicting demands: his job, her job and their relationship. Says Patricia Kennedy, a psychologist in New York: "Marriage, or even living together, has become every bit as much a business merger as it is an emotional commitment." Says Donald Bloch, director...
...Westmoreland libel trial had their cost. Millions of dollars were at stake. But when the general and Wallace met inadvertently, side by side, at a courthouse urinal, Wallace had the feeling they were "partners in misery." When Wallace got the flu, the general's wife gave him aspirin and apple juice. Wallace also found it unsettling as a journalist to be "on the other side of the scrutiny," with television cameras pursuing him. He is having what he calls sober second thoughts: "My appetite for the hard question is diminished. I think, I hope, I'll get it back." Several...
...Like aspirin, ibuprofen and flurbiprofen are classified as non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs which stop the swelling and redness of bodily injury...
...also increase circulation to the damaged area, causing the swelling and redness known as inflammation. The purpose of this is to attract infection-fighting blood cells that will ward off any invading bacteria. Since the days of Hippocrates, doctors have been relieving pain with salicylic acid, a precursor to aspirin that was derived from willow bark, but only in the past 15 years have they understood that it works by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins. Tylenol (the most common brand of acetaminophen) works much the same way, as do popular prescription analgesics like Clinoril (sulindac), Motrin (ibuprofen) and Dolobid (diflunisal...
...first line of treatment is the "simple analgesics": usually aspirin and acetaminophen. Even cancer patients can sometimes find relief in a bottle of aspirin. A number of other nonnarcotic drugs have proved useful in treating specific kinds of pain. Migraine Sufferer Elaine Anderson, 31, of San Francisco had tried everything from strong doses of codeine to psychic counseling to relieve pain "that felt like someone was tightening my head in a vise." She finally found relief with calcium channel blockers, originally developed for heart patients. Antidepressive drugs like the tricyclics are frequently recommended for shingles and chronic lower-back pain...