Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New tweetment: Twitter users describe real-time migraine agony
Someone's drilling an icicle into your temple, you're throwing up, and light and sound are unbearable.
Apr 3, 2014
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Neuroscience
Migraine attacks increase following stress 'let-down'
Migraine sufferers who experienced reduced stress from one day to the next are at significantly increased risk of migraine onset on the subsequent day, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the Montefiore Headache ...
Mar 26, 2014
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Health
US headache sufferers get $1 billion worth of brain scans each year, study finds
One in eight visits to a a doctor for a headache or migraine end up with the patient going for a brain scan, at a total cost of about $1 billion a year, a new University of Michigan Medical School study finds.
Mar 17, 2014
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Medications
FDA approves electric headband to prevent migraine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it approved a Belgium-made nerve-stimulating headband as the first medical device to prevent migraine headaches.
Mar 11, 2014
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Neuroscience
Does more stress equal more headaches?
A new study provides evidence for what many people who experience headache have long suspected—having more stress in your life leads to more headaches. The study released today will be presented at the American Academy ...
Feb 19, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study shows that high-blood pressure medicine also prevents migraines
Candesartan is just as effective as more the commonly prescribed propranolol when it comes to preventing migraine attacks, according to a new study from St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, Norway and the Norwegian University ...
Jan 13, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study finds that information is as important as medication in reducing migraine pain
The information that clinicians provide to patients when prescribing treatments has long been thought to play a role in the way that patients respond to drug therapies. Now an innovative study of migraine headache confirms ...
Jan 8, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Don't let migraines ruin your holidays
(HealthDay)—The holidays can challenge the estimated 30 million migraine sufferers in the United States as they try to deal with crowds, travel delays, stress and other potential headache triggers.
Dec 26, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Adding cognitive behavioral therapy to treatment of pediatric migraine improves relief of symptoms
Among children and adolescents with chronic migraine, the use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) resulted in greater reductions in headache frequency and migraine-related disability compared with headache education, according ...
Dec 24, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
FDA approves new magnet device to treat migraines
(HealthDay)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first device aimed at easing the pain of migraines preceded by aura—sensory disturbances that occur just before an attack.
Dec 15, 2013
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