by Dr Robbins | Sep 27, 2012 | Headache Drugs
If the delicious taste of chocolate triggers a migraine for you, consider substituting carob instead. While chocolate contains caffeine, carob is caffeine-free. Dictionary.com describes carob as coming from a Mediterranean tree, the Ceratonia siliqua, of the legume...
by Dr Robbins | Sep 5, 2012 | Headache Drugs
We have posted in the past about the connection between headaches and mild traumatic brain injury – it’s an important subject. Recently, at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society, Sylvia Lucas, MD, PhD, reported that new...
by Dr Robbins | Aug 23, 2012 | Headache Drugs
Christoph Schankin, MD, a fellow in the Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Headache Center recently discussed visual snow at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society. Sometimes patients with visual snow are...
by Dr Robbins | Jul 26, 2012 | Headache Drugs
A large study was recently presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology with findings indicating that headache-related nausea occurred in approximately 80% of people with migraines in the US population. According to Richard B.Lipton, MD,...
by Dr Robbins | Jul 22, 2012 | Headache Drugs
Researchers from the neurology department at Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona recently published results from a study looking at how migraines and migraineurs are portrayed in popular music. Believing that popular music is mostly the territory of young people, the...
