Tuesday 28 February 2012

Paracetamol may nurse broken heart

Latest News from Washington: A simple dose of paracetamol could help ease the pain of hurt feelings from a broken heart, a new study has claimed.
The rather prosaic cure emerged in a study by neuroscientists, which found that emotional pain is processed in the same area of the brain as physical pain.
They also discovered that hurt feelings, such as being dumped by a partner, can respond to painkillers.
In a three-week trial at the University of California, 62 people were told to take either Tylenol - the American name for paracetamol - or a placebo and then record how they felt every night...read more

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