by Sue Robbins | Nov 27, 2020 | Migraine
Blogger Erica Carrasco discusses how her brand came to be and how she uses it to advocate for others Migraine advocacy takes many forms. There are real people behind this disease, each with their own lives and passions. In an effort to make a difference, some people...
by Sue Robbins | Nov 17, 2020 | Migraine
Nearly 80% of people taking a new class of medication to prevent migraine say their migraine headaches are “better” since they started taking the drugs, according to a survey conducted by Eli Lilly. Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) inhibitors prevent migraines...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 28, 2020 | Migraine
Fewer than one in three people with migraine took guideline-recommended prescription medication, data presented at the American Headache Society (AHS) annual scientific meeting showed. About 28% of survey respondents with mild to severe migraine-related...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 7, 2020 | Migraine
Migraine research and opioids “We’ve been very concerned about the use of opioids broadly as a society,” Lipton says. “To a surprising degree, opioids are used for migraine.” Recent studies have shown that of people with migraine who take acute prescription...
by Sue Robbins | Sep 28, 2020 | Migraine
Genetic malfunction of brain astrocytes triggers migraine Neuroscientists shed a new light on the mechanisms responsible for familial migraine: They show that a genetic dysfunction in specific brain cells of the cingulate cortex area strongly influences head pain...
