If this is not your name, click here. Other Ophthalmic Surgery Organ Transplantation Orthopaedics Other Osteoarthritis Osteoporosis Otitis Otorhino. Pain relief reached statistical significance for both medications when compared with placebo among the 115 patients who were evaluated in the study, said Laureen MacEachern, Ph.D., senior associate director of research at Bayer, Inc., Morristown, New Jersey. Dr. MacEachern said that patients were selected if they had at least two tension headache but no more than 10 in the past month.
Tension headaches are the head pain typically caused by mental stress.
They were then evaluated for pain at 30 minutes and then hourly until hour 6. In the study, pain relief with either medication was seen within the first hour. Although patients rated pain relief great with the prescription drug, the difference between Tylenol and aspirin did not reach statistical significance at any time point, MacEachern said. Any question regarding a medical diagnosis, treatment, referral, drug availability or pricing should be directed to either a licensed physician or to the product's manufacturer.