Migraine Increases Risk Of Severe Skin Sensitivity, Pain
People with migraine are more likely to experience exacerbated skin sensitivity or pain after non-painful daily activities such as rubbing one's head, combing one's hair and wearing necklaces or earrings, compared to people with other types of headache.
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Migraine Linked To Women's Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease
New research shows women who have weekly migraine are significantly more likely to have a stroke than those with fewer migraines or no migraine at all, but those with lower migraine frequency may face increased risk of heart attacks.
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Overuse Of Codeine, Oxycodone, Barbiturates Increases Risk Of Chronic Migraine
People who overuse barbiturates and opioids, such as codeine, butalbital, and oxycodone, to treat migraine are at an increased risk of developing chronic migraine.
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Trexime Tablets Approved For Acute Treatment Of Migraine
FDA has approved Treximet for the acute treatment of migraine attacks with or without aura in adults.
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Hypertension Sufferers Have Less Headaches
People who suffer from high blood pressure are less likely to have headaches, including migraine.
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Study Evaluates Treatment For Migraines
Approximately 28 million Americans suffer from chronic migraines.
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Headache Affects Sexual Life and Relationships
Headaches may interfere with a satisfying sex life and impair relationships overall.
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Comatose locusts may help relieve human migraines
Biologists link locust comas with human migraine, saying the research may lead to migraine treatment reducing painful effects of migraine.
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Unexplained headaches? It could be work stress
Complaining about that unexplained bouts of headache or body pain even when you are completely fit? Well it could be work related stress that can cause depression and other health problems.
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Genetic Testing May Help People With Severe Type Of Migraine
People with a severe type of migraine in which one side of the body becomes weak should consider genetic testing.
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Migraine Relief Homeopathic Nasal Spray Now Available
Nasal Therapeutics to enter the over-the-counter market with a new migraine relief homeopathic nasal spray.
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Brain Differences Found In People With Migraine
People with migraines have differences in an area of the brain that helps process sensory information, including pain.
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Neuromuscular Dentistry Ends Woman's Migraines
Kim Reed, 42, suffered with migraines for 10 years. In the last three years, the regularity of theseheadaches increased to three or four a week.
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Former Migraine Sufferer's Book Offers Relief
Former migraine sufferer L. Brooke Dubick and renowned nutritionist Judith Chiostri give strategies and recipes to help decrease migraine headaches in their new book.
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Is Your Headache A Migraine?
GlaxoSmithKline campaign to increase awareness among migraine sufferers, particularly men, that they don't have to go it alone.
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Cleveland Clinic Releases Book About Headache Treatment Pain
Cleveland Clinic has released "Headaches: A Cleveland Clinic Handbook".
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Closing A Heart Hole May Lead To Migraine Headache Relief
Interventional cardiologists investigating whether a heart procedure may be the key to relieving migraines in patients with severe headaches.
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Research Helps Convert Brain Signals Into Action
Researchers have developed a new algorithm to help create prosthetic devices that convert brain signals into action in patients who have been paralyzed or had limbs amputated.
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Migraine: Not Just A 'Woman's Disease'
Despite the long-held belief that migraine headache is only a "woman's disease," a survey revealed that men who were diagnosed with headache were most often diagnosed with migraine headaches.
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Depression In Women With Migraine Linked To Childhood Abuse
Childhood abuse is more common in women with migraine who suffer depression than in women with migraine alone.
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New Treatment Effective For Most Severe Kind Of Headache
A nasal spray is safe and effective at rapidly treating cluster headaches, which are considered to be the most painful kind of headache with few treatment options.
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Drug For Cluster Headaches May Cause Heart Problems
A drug increasingly used to prevent cluster headaches can cause heart problems.
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Why Women Get More Migraines Than Men
For every man with a migraine, three women are struck by the severe headaches that often come with nausea, sensitivity to light and sound, and aura.
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Teenagers From Low Income Families At Greater Risk Of Migraine
Teenagers from low income households with no family history of migraine are more likely to suffer migraine.
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Trexima Demonstrated Migraine-Free Response Across Multiple Attacks
Trexima, when taken early, was nearly twice as effective as placebo in eliminating all traditional migraine symptoms at two and four hours across multiple attacks with just one tablet.
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Migraines During Pregnancy Linked To Stroke And Other Vascular Disease
Migraines during pregnancy are strongly linked to vascular diseases, such as stroke and heart disease.
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For Iraq Veterans, Migraines May Be Sign Of Other Problems
Soldiers returning from combat in Iraq who have migraine headaches are more than twice as likely to also have symptoms of post-traumatic stress, depression or anxiety than soldiers who do not have migraines.
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Trexima Provided Relief Of Both Traditional And Non-traditional Migraine Symptoms
While many migraine sufferers experience traditional symptoms such as nausea or sensitivity to light and sound, migraine attacks can also involve symptoms like neck pain or sinus pain that are not traditionally associated with migraine headaches.
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Trexima Demonstrated Efficacy Across Multiple Migraine Attacks
Patients who suffer from migraines frequently cite inconsistent effectiveness as a reason for their dissatisfaction with their medicine.
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Does Migraine Protect Your Memory?
Women with a lifetime history of migraine showed less of a performance decline over time on cognitive tests than women who didn't have migraines.
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Migraines Linked To Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Men
Men with migraine headaches may be at an increased risk for major cardiovascular disease and especially heart attacks.
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Combination Treatment for Migraine More Effective Than Single Medications
Combining two different types of treatment for migraine results in better symptom relief than taking either one of the medications.
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Headache-related work absences have a considerable socio-economic effect
Migraines and tension-type headaches are much more common in people's forties, when they are often at their most productive, so the socio-economic implications of this chronic disease are considerable.
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UI Team Identifies Protein That May Promote Migraines
The researchers found that too much of a small protein called RAMP1 appears to "turn up the volume" of a nerve cell receptor's response to a neuropeptide thought to cause migraines.
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Psychiatric, neurologic conditions may underlie many cases of chronic dizziness
Chronic dizziness may have several common causes, including anxiety disorders, migraine, traumatic brain injury and disorders in the part of the nervous system governing involuntary activities.
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Fear of Migraine Destroys Quality of Life for Men
The unpredictability of symptoms associated with living with migraine is limiting mens' lives.
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Drug Prescribed for Migraines and Seizures Increases Risk of Kidney Stones
Topiramate (Topamax), a drug commonly prescribed to treat seizures and migraine headaches, can increase the propensity of calcium phosphate kidney stones.
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Spinal Cord Stimulators Tested as Treatment for Patients with Migraine Headaches
This treatment may help migraine sufferers who do not respond to other available therapies, or who cannot tolerate the side effects of existing migraine treatment medications.
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Migraine Treatment and Prevention in Women
Most people with migraines first seek help and treatment from their primary care provider instead of a neurologist or a specialist.
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Tired of Headaches?
National Headache Foundation survey finds link between sleep pattern and headache.
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