by Sue Robbins | Dec 23, 2019 | Migraine
Aura has long been a perplexing issue in migraine. Primarily viewed as a prodromal sign of migraine in some patients some of the time, aura has been largely overlooked in clinical trials that tend to enroll patients with migraine with and without aura.1 However, new...
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 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...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 13, 2019 | Migraine
A series of migraineurs with episodic visual snow suggests a condition that is distinct from visual snow syndrome. Episodic visual snow was associated with migraine attacks in a case series of three adults who denied any visual snow outside of the migraines, based on...
