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- Harry Potter Has Migraine Headaches?
June 29, 2007 -- Harry Potter, the fictional character known worldwide from author J.K. Rowling's books and the Harry Potter movies, likely has migraine headaches. That diagnosis comes from Fred Sheftell, MD, and colleagues. Sheftell works in Stamford, Conn., at the New England Center for Headache.
Read Full Article - Migraines May Ease With Age
June 8, 2007 -- Good news for most migraine sufferers: With age, you can expect to get fewer, less- painful migraine attacks that don't last as long, a new study from Sweden suggests. "It does seem that in most people migraine is not a progressive disease," says Carl Dahlof, MD, PhD, a neurologist a
Read Full Article - New Migraine Drug Promising
June 7, 2007 - New migraine pain relief may be on the way for the 28 million American sufferers, shows a promising new study. A new migraine drug under study that works differently than medications currently on the market provided pain relief for more than two-thirds of those who tried it, says Tony
Read Full Article - Movie Headaches Vex Real-Life Doctors
June 7, 2007 -- Pity the movie character that gets a headache. Chances are, his or her fate is grim, compared with most headaches real people get. So say three New York University neurologists, including Bert Vargas, MD, who presented their findings about on-screen headaches in Chicago at the Americ
Read Full Article - Too Few Get Best Migraine Drugs
May 18, 2007 -- Too many patients get potentially addictive, under-effective drugs for migraine -- and too few get the most effective migraine drugs, a new survey shows. The Harris Interactive online survey, commissioned by the National Headache Foundation, polled 502 adult migraine patients in the
Read Full Article - Migraines Risk Factor for Heart Attack
April 23, 2007 -- Painful migraine headaches are a warning that more dangerous pain may lie ahead. A new study shows in men what earlier studies showed in women: People who get migraines are at higher risk of heart attack and stroke than are people who don't get migraines. For women, the risk is con
Read Full Article - New Combo Migraine Drug in the Works
April 3, 2007 -- A new migraine drug may bring more migraine relief than two other migraine drugs, a new study shows. The new drug, called Trexima, is a blend of the migraine drug Imitrex and the pain reliever naproxen sodium, which is found in drugs including Aleve, Anaprox, and Naprosyn. Imitrex a
Read Full Article - New Treatment for Cluster Headaches
March 8, 2007 -- There is new hope for sufferers of an excruciatingly painful type of headache who get no relief from drugs. Two newly published studies show a minimally invasive nerve stimulation procedure to be a safe and effective alternative to surgery for many patients with drug-resistant clust
Read Full Article - FDA Pulls 15 Migraine Drugs off Market
March 1, 2007 -- The FDA today announced that it has ordered 15 unapproved migraine drugs containing ergotamine off the market. These prescription drugs, though used to treat migraines, haven’t been reviewed by the FDA for safety and efficacy. This does not affect the most commonly prescribed migrai
Read Full Article - Children May Outgrow Migraines
Oct. 30, 2006 -- A majority of adolescents with migraines either stop having headaches or develop less-severe ones as they reach adulthood, new research shows. Of the 55 children studied, 40% had remission by their early 20s, while 20% shifted to less troubling tension-type headaches, according to t
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