Acetaminophen Reduces Empathy Study Says!

 

When you take acetaminophen to reduce your pain, you may also be decreasing your empathy for both the physical and social aches that other people experience, a new study suggests.

 Ohio State University. (2016, May 10). When you take acetaminophen, you don't feel others' pain as much: The popular painkiller reduces empathy, study finds. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 10, 2016 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160510084257.htm

Acetaminophen Not Effective As An Osteoarthritis Treatment!

 

Taken alone, acetaminophen is "not effective at any dose" for relieving pain or improving physical function for patients with osteoarthritis, concludes a large-scale meta-analysis recently published in The Lancet.

 Acetaminophen 'an ineffective treatment for osteoarthritis'. Honor Whiteman. Medical News Today. March 18,2016. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/308061.php?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=56ebe20c04d30145cad6da94&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook