by Sue Robbins | Feb 20, 2015 | Headache Drugs
In a new study, Professor Lyn Griffiths and colleagues from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia looked at 141 women suffering from migraine with aura. The study involved analyzing dietary intake of folate in the participants and differences in their...
by Sue Robbins | Nov 4, 2014 | Headache Drugs
To evaluate the association between migraine and cognitive decline among women, a total of 6,349 women aged 65 or older enrolled in the Women’s Health Study. The women provided information about migraine status at baseline and participated in cognitive testing...
by Sue Robbins | Nov 3, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Electricity has been used for headache since Roman times. In the first century AD, the black torpedo fish (electric ray) was (apparently successfully) applied to the pain. The 2 devices to recently come to the market in the US are the Cefaly (TENS) unit, and the...
by Sue Robbins | Mar 21, 2014 | Headache Drugs
“If you are a woman, you share many of the same risk factors for stroke with men, but your risk is also influenced by hormones, reproductive health, pregnancy, childbirth, and other sex-related factors,” said Cheryl Bushnell, MD, lead author of the...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 29, 2013 | Headache Drugs
A review by Danish researchers has found that after analyzing 20 separate studies that changes in the brain’s white matter and tiny lesions could be found in the brains’ of migraine sufferers. The results were published in the journal Neurology. The reason...
