Robbins Headache Clinic Blog
Olive Oil May Increase Bone Health
A Spanish study reports that a Mediterranean-style diet enhanced with olive oil improved blood markers linked with bone formation. A Mediterranean-style diet has been recommended for heart health by researchers and physicians for sometime now. Osteoporosis is seen...
Post Hurricane Sandy
(This post is from a fellow migraine person and part-time blogger).......Migraine patient advocate and writer Teri Robert posted a blog last Sunday reminding her readers to never give up hope. The following is part of that blog: It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon here...
Finding a Better Way to Care for Alzheimer’s Patients
Under a $2 billion plan begun in 2007, France is building new memory clinics for patients, training doctors and nurses and providing programs to support families affected by Alzheimer's. The hope is to understand and address the broader problems that the disease...
Can Hot Cocoa Improve Brain Power?
A clinical trial backed by chocolate-maker Mars reports that older adults with mild cognitive impairment boosted scores on some mental tests when they consumed more cocoa flavanols. Flavanols are antioxidant compounds that are attributed to health benefits found in...
Medical Care in the Hospitals
I had occasion to witness the docs and nurses in a big city hospital in action; I spent many years working in the hospitals, late 70s to 90's...quite a difference now, and not really for the better(just my opinion). We would take an hour history and do a complete...
Migraine in Disasters
So we were in New York during the hurricane(I was there for a psychopharmacology conference and exam......bad timing....). At CVS and Walgreens, there were long lines for medications; the woman in front of me was getting her sumatriptan for migraines. Many pharmacies...
“Superfoods” Ripe in November
The Huffington Post Healthy Living section has lots of "wellness" articles that point out foods we should consider eating for taste as well as our health. They recently posted November "superfoods" that are hitting their peak now, as Thanksgiving approaches. Some...
HEADACHE 2013: New E-Book
We have just published a new, comprehensive E-Book...Headache 2013...which has extensive sections on many aspects of headache, including "..what to do when nothing works, or what people with difficult to treat headaches can do...".....it is about 340 pages, and has...
Introduction– “A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountainside”. -anon.
Hi--my name is Shari. I have the honor of being a guest blogger on Dr. Robbin's site. Doctor has asked me to share my almost 30 year "migraine journey"--starting from one migraine a year, building to a severe period, morphing to chronic and finally today--to Botox. I...
Studies Look at Migraine Rates Among Neurologists
A national survey in Norway reported that of 245 neurologists interviewed, 35% said they have had migraine headaches. Of those, 26% said they had experienced a migraine in the past year - double what is reported by Norwegians as a whole. Dr. Karl B. Alstadhaug of...