by Sue Robbins | Jun 23, 2020 | Miscellaneous
Judging from comments I’ve heard and read, many Americans expect that a vaccine against Covid-19 will soon end the need for masks and social distancing and enable us to resume our pre-Covid lives. As one neighbor said, citing the administration’s “Warp Speed”...
by Sue Robbins | Jun 22, 2020 | Migraine
Does it seem that your migraines are more frequent or worse and more difficult to bear since the pandemic began? That’s not just in your head. Doctors say they are now seeing many more complaints from migraine sufferers — often called “migrainers” —...
by Sue Robbins | Jun 17, 2020 | Migraine
Migraine is highly prevalent in the pediatric population, with findings from population-based studies indicating rates of 7.7%–9.1% among children and adolescents. 1 Sleep disorders are also frequently observed in these groups and represent a common comorbidity in...
by Sue Robbins | Jun 16, 2020 | Migraine
Migraine headaches are notoriously difficult to treat with pain medications, which perform no better than placebo in studies. Now, a new paper in the journal Headache finds that 83% of patients who completed a short course of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) had...
by Sue Robbins | Jun 15, 2020 | Wellness
My father the doctor maintained that hand-washing was our family’s single greatest obligation to one another and to the world. Is there any hope we’ll all keep doing it? My neurologist father maintained that hand-washing was our family’s single greatest obligation to...
