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Brainard should know. The St. Paul surgeon is one of millions of Americans who chronically suffer from that most severe of headaches: the migraine (from the Greek for "half skull").-Virtually everyone has an occasional headache, and it can usually be treated by nothing more sophisticated than aspirin. But the migraine is different. This violent cranial storm was for a long time medicine's stepchild. Few drugs were useful against it, and doctors could offer little help in relieving...
Bayer AG, the huge West German chemical firm, is best known in the U.S. for a product it has not owned for 60 years: its American rights to the name and trademark of Bayer aspirin were confiscated during World War I and thereafter given to Sterling Drug. Since the '50s, Bayer (pronounced Buyer in Germany) has been getting back into the U.S. market acquiring Mobay Chemical of Pittsburgh and Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., but it has never regained a significant position in U.S. consumer drugs. Last week it moved to do so, by offering "at least...
University administrators have authority, power, plushly carpeted offices and sometimes a listing in Who's Who. But they can also have enough headaches to warrant ordering aspirin by the gross...
...Abolishing all recommendations on labels to use aspirin for arthritis or rheumatism. The panel did not dispute the fact that aspirin helps sufferers of these ailments and is often the only drug advised by doctors, but warned that many people are courting disaster by using it without first seeking medical attention. In some cases, self-medication with aspirin may be inadequate and in others totally wrong. In gonorrhea, for example, arthritis-like pains are sometimes the only obvious symptom. Anyone relying on aspirin who has this disease is thus doing nothing to control the dangerous underlying bacterial infection...
...Fixing a standard dose so each tablet of aspirin or acetaminophen for adults contains 325 mg. and those given to children 80 mg. The panel pointed out that such standardized quantities will not only help avoid misuse of the drugs but also assure consumers that they are getting the same quantities of analgesics in different brands...