Letter from the Editor
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In a perfect world every new treatment for migraine would become available immediately to patients…
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So What Else is New? A parade of new migraine therapies!
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While it’s nice to have so many new options, the number of new therapies and the rapidity with which they have arrived has had a dizzying effect.
Read MoreMigraine Treatment of the Month: BotoxA
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Although onabotulinumtoxinA (BotoxA) has been FDA-approved for the treatment of chronic migraine for well over 10 years…
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month
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Patients often report that along with migraine they experience “eight other types of headache”. Most often, what they are confirming is that the clinical manifestations of migraine range along a spectrum
Read MoreMigraine Tip of the Month: Migraine Doesn't Always Require A Medicine
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Getting back to my patient who divulged her secret cure at Rosa’s on that morning so many years ago, I think what her experience tells us is that there are many ways to “skin the migraine cat“.
Read MoreLetter from the Editor
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In 1992 the clinical emergence of injectable sumatriptan, the first “designer drug“ developed specifically for migraine, inaugurated a revolution…
Read MoreStatus Migrainosus: What Do You Do When the Migraine Won’t Stop?
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It was only 3 days ago when you started developing that familiar pain above your right eyebrow, but it seems more like a month…
Read MoreA Third Way: The Headache “Rescue Room”
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You: I have a terrible migraine headache, and it just will not stop! I’ve tried every medicine the doctor prescribed…
Read MoreMigraine Tip of the Month: The New Hybrid: Nurtec
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After I complete my evaluation of a new migraine patient who has come to my clinic, we sit together to plot…
Read MoreThe “Other” Primary Headaches: Part 1: The “others” that can cause daily headache
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Diagnostically speaking, headache disorders are designated as…
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: It’s migraine only if you have an aura, etc.
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Amongst healthcare providers, headache patients and the general population there is a common misunderstanding…
Read MoreMigraine Treatment of the Month: Reyvow (lasmiditan)
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Within the past two years 3 new oral medications intended for treatment of acute migraine headache…
Read MoreDoctor on Call
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Erica, a 37-year-old female living in Bogota and teaching “English as a foreign language”, writes…
Read MoreLetter from the Editor
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For the healthcare provider who maintains a subspecialty interest in headache, a week can resemble one cycle of the ocean’s tide.
Read MorePediatric and Adolescent Migraine: Ten things to know
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Sad to say, but in the “nation of migraine” child and adolescent migraineurs too often are relegated to the status of second class citizens…
Read MoreThe Intersection of Migraine and Stroke: Migraine and stroke risk
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For reasons not entirely clear, migraine appears to convey approximately a 2- 3 fold increased risk of stroke relative to…
Read MoreMigraine Tip of the Month: What to do for your child’s acute migraine episode
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What is a parent to do?
Read MoreWhat’s New in Migraine Research? Highlights from the recent AAN meeting
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Highlights from the American Academy of Neurology annual scientific meeting
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: Are your daily headaches a sign of a brain tumor?
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If your headaches always occur on the same side of your head, there is a very good possibility that you have a brain tumor or another serious cause for your headaches.
