http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A research team led by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, San Francisco has identified a genetic mutation that is strongly associated with a typical form of migraine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-genetic-mutation-linked-typical-migraine.html Genetics Wed, 01 May 2013 14:00:01 EST news286625251 Women often point to stress, hormones, alcohol, or even the weather as possible triggers for their migraines. But a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center found that it is nearly impossible for patients to determine the true cause of their migraine episodes without undergoing formal experiments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-migraines-impossible.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:25:43 EST news284613936 (HealthDay)—The first skin patch approved to treat migraines offers patients an alternative to pills, nasal sprays and injections, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-battery-operated-skin-patch-option-migraine.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:17:40 EST news283540650 In a small, preliminary study of regular migraine sufferers, scientists have found that measuring a fat-derived protein called adiponectin (ADP) before and after migraine treatment can accurately reveal which headache victims felt pain relief. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-blood-fat-cell-hormone-severity.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:19:41 EST news282824308 Wearing a nerve stimulator for 20 minutes a day may be a new option for migraine sufferers, according to new research published in the February 6, 2013, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-nerve-migraine.html Neuroscience Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:00:03 EST news279386401 (HealthDay News) —A skin patch for the treatment of migraines, and the intense waves of nausea that often accompany these debilitating headaches, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fda-skin-patch-combat-migraines.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:03:16 EST news278006588 When medications fail to eradicate debilitating migraine headaches, surgery could provide relief for certain patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-chronic-migraine-headache-relief-outpatient.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:58:11 EST news276512282 Kids who get migraine headaches are much more likely than other children to also have behavioral difficulties, including social and attention issues, and anxiety and depression. The more frequent the headaches, the greater the effect, according to research out now in the journal Cephalagia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-behavior-issues-bigger-headache-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:53:07 EST news267097915 An international research group has identified four new gene loci predisposing people to the most common subtype of migraine, migraine without aura. About two-thirds of migraine sufferers belong to this group. The study will be published in Nature Genetics on June 10, 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-gene-loci-predispose-people-common.html Genetics Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:00:12 EST news258548619 New hope has arrived for migraine sufferers following a Griffith University study with the people of Norfolk Island. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-migraine-female-gene-link.html Genetics Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:30:51 EST news258024619 As many as one-third of sufferers of migraine with aura experience forewarning symptoms even the day before an attack that might create an opportunity for intervention and prevention. Later during the actual migraine episode then a significant number of migraine sufferers experience aura prior to an attack, which is characterized by visual disturbances, illusions, zigzag lines, blind spots, speech disturbances, and tingling or numbness on one side of the body. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-migraine.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:06:59 EST news226152408 Precision tinted lenses have been used widely to reduce visual perceptual distortions in poor readers, and are increasingly used for migraine sufferers, but until now the science behind these effects has been unclear. Now research published in the journal Cephalalgia, published by SAGE, uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for the first time to suggest a neurological basis for these visual remedies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-tinted-specs-real-migraine-relief.html Neuroscience Thu, 26 May 2011 03:20:18 EST news225598790