If the Food and Drug Administration warning last week wasn’t enough to make you think twice before popping that ibuprofen so liberally for every ache and pain, a paper published Tuesday should give you pause.
The population-based study, published in the BMJ, found that mixing antidepressants with common painkillers appears to be linked to a higher risk of intracranial bleeding — which occurs in the skull — shortly after starting the treatment. The researchers emphasized that their finding doesn’t necessarily mean that this drug combination causes the bleeding, but that it’s a possibility that needs to be explored further.
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