by Sue Robbins | Apr 14, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Webmd.com recently (March/April 2014) posted data regarding migraines/headaches in the U.S. and around the world. This is what they found: 47% of the world’s population has had a headache in the last year. There are 28 million Americans living with migraines. 3%...
by Sue Robbins | Apr 10, 2014 | Headache Drugs
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, osteoarthritis, a chronic joint disease affects 14% of people over 25 and 34% over 65. A new study has found that increasing milk consumption is associated with slower progression of the disease in women. In...
by Sue Robbins | Apr 8, 2014 | Headache Drugs
On the website for Lumosity, there is a promise to “train” your brain with games designed to fend off mental decline. Users can view images of numbers and birds to assess attention span, or match tile patterns to test memory. And, while Lumosity may be the...
by Sue Robbins | Apr 7, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Students at Colorado College were hooked up to equipment that supposedly showed how much time they spent in rapid eye movement (REM), the “high-quality” sleep that makes you feel rested. In reality, the machine did nothing. One group of students was told...
by Sue Robbins | Apr 6, 2014 | Headache Drugs
“As technology and language evolve, so does the way we share our suffering,” says Alexandre DaSilva, assistant professor and director of the Headache and Orofacial Pain Effort at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. He and his team decided to...
by Sue Robbins | Apr 2, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Dr. Peter Goadsby, professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, says there is evidence that between migraine attacks, the brains of migraineurs function differently than that of other people’s brains. Studies have shown that...
