by Sue Robbins | Jun 8, 2015 | Headache Drugs
Women with higher levels of everyday exposure to chemicals experienced menopause 2 to 4 years earlier than the average woman in a large Washington University School of Medicine study. Chemicals significantly linked to earlier menopause included pesticides and...
by Sue Robbins | Jun 4, 2015 | Headache Drugs
For many people, stress and headaches are inextricably linked. “Pain is what tells us to get out of a situation,” said Robert Cowan, a professor of neurology and chief of the division of headache and facial pain at Stanford University. Stress causes...
by Sue Robbins | Jun 2, 2015 | Headache Drugs
Many migraineurs are very sensitive to light and sound, and researchers recently determined that they have heightened connectivity between specific areas of the brain. This finding may help in the development of migraine treatments, said lead author Amy R. Tso, MD, of...
by Sue Robbins | May 29, 2015 | Headache Drugs
Migraine has been associated with many health disorders, and recently researchers linked migraine to carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), a condition to which it had not been linked previously. Researchers believe these disorders may share systemic or neurological factors....
by Sue Robbins | May 27, 2015 | Headache Drugs
Have you ever been told “This won’t hurt a bit” before having a shot, only to find that it hurts a lot? Your expectations have been violated. A study at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center identified through imaging the part of the brain that is...
by Sue Robbins | May 26, 2015 | Headache Drugs
When researchers at Vanderbilt University tracked the diets of more than 70,000 Americans for five and a half years, they found that those who ate the most peanuts had a 21% lower risk of death in that time frame than those who ate the least. Study author Xiao-Ou Shu...
