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Dr. Alexander Mauskop by Dr. Alexander Mauskop

Exercise for Depression and Migraine

Depression (and anxiety) is 2-3 times more common in those suffering from migraines than in people without migraines.

 

Depression is not caused by migraines because patients who develop depression first are 2-3 times more likely to develop migraines than people without depression.

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Dr. Alexander Mauskop by Dr. Alexander Mauskop

Overreliance on Drugs?

 

A recent survey by Beatrice Golomb and her colleagues which was reported by Reuters Health discovered that when patients reported adverse reactions to drugs their doctors routinely denied that the drug was responsible for these side effects.

 

To a great extent this is due to doctor’s lack of knowledge about potential side effects, but I suspect it is also because doctors have an unreasonable degree of reliance and faith in drugs.

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