by Sue Robbins | Dec 20, 2019 | Migraine
Not getting enough water is enough to make you feel sluggish and give you a headache, but a new Penn State study suggests it may also relate to cognitive performance. The researchers investigated whether hydration levels and water intake among older adults was related...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 19, 2019 | Migraine
Nearly half of all patients who suffer migraines report sleep disturbance as a trigger for their headaches. But the relationship between sleep and migraine headaches is not well understood or well-studied. Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Beth...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 18, 2019 | Migraine
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that ubrogepant demonstrated greater rates of pain and symptom relief from migraine compared with a placebo. More than 20% of participants in a large-scale clinical trial reported being pain-free...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 17, 2019 | Wellness
While news reports focus on an epidemic of opioid abuse among young adults, another totally legal and usually hidden drug epidemic is occurring at the other end of the age spectrum: the fistfuls of remedies — both prescription and over-the-counter — taken by older...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 16, 2019 | Migraine
Ann Jones tried everything short of surgery for her chronic migraines, which have plagued her since she was a child. “They’ve actually gotten worse in my old age,” says Jones, who is 70 years old and lives in Tucson, Ariz. Jones would have as many as...
