by Sue Robbins | Aug 28, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Approximately 36% of patients who meet criteria for chronic migraine and consult a headache specialist receive a diagnosis of chronic migraine. Of patients who meet criteria and consult with a nonheadache specialist, about 16% receive a diagnosis of chronic migraine....
by Sue Robbins | Aug 26, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Some prescription anti-nausea medications have side effects, like making you drowsy, says gastroenterologist Patricia L. Raymond, an assistant professor of clinical internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va. So, the idea of treating nausea...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 24, 2014 | Headache Drugs
According to lead researcher Amy Gelfand, MD, assistant professor, Clinical Neurology and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, and child neurologist University of California, San Francisco, Headache Center, the results of a new meta-analysis linking...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 5, 2014 | Headache Drugs
Researchers from the Department of Biomechanics, Medicine and Locomotor Apparatus Rehabilitation, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil set out to look at the contribution of neck pain to the overall disability of migraineurs. They hypothesized that disability due to neck...
by Sue Robbins | Jul 10, 2014 | Headache Drugs
The headache sufferer should not rely solely on medicine. Other than medication, it is crucial to avoid caffeine overuse, try to limit “as needed” medications (so as to avoid medication overuse headache (MOH)), and manage the headache triggers (missing...
