by Sue Robbins | Dec 16, 2020 | Migraine
How migraine impacts the transgender community Before our webinar on migraine in transgender people, we polled the migraine community to see what questions people had. Host Dr. Anna Pace, director of the Transgender Headache Medicine Program at Mount Sinai, discussed...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 16, 2020 | Migraine
The sweet spot for physical activity and longevity seemed to arrive at about 35 minutes a day of brisk walking or other moderate activities. Walking for at least 11 minutes a day could lessen the undesirable health consequences of sitting for hours and hours,...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 14, 2020 | Migraine
Monoclonal antibodies and small-molecule antagonists that target CGRP or its receptor are already having a big impact on migraine. But they have the potential to do so much more. Peter Goadsby sat in the audience, intrigued. The Australian medical student had come to...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 12, 2020 | Migraine
Scientists are trying to work out why attacks become more and more frequent in some people — and how to reverse the process. Len Barbieri started getting migraine headaches when he was 9 years old, although it was many years before they were labelled as such. The...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 12, 2020 | Migraine
Migraines are often associated with colourful visual disturbances called auras, but many mysteries remain about how they fit into the wider biology of the syndrome. In 2012, neurologist Andrew Charles received a phone call from a septuagenarian engineer who had begun...
