The New “Designer Drugs” for Migraine: Upsides and Downsides
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What is the “Best” Migraine Therapy? Old vs New, New vs New
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While 2021 was replete with a variety of woes that any sane person would prefer…
Read MoreMigraine Treatment of the Month: Atogepant (Qulipta)
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The nervous system is a complex collection of interactive electronic circuits that conduct…
COVID: Its Impact on Migraine and Migraine Management
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...the ripples of COVID are reaching out to touch even far distant shores.
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Rachel, a 35-year-old female who lives in Washington, D. C. and works as project manager for one of the city’s countless nonprofit NGOs writes…
Read MoreLetter from the Editor
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In a perfect world every new treatment for migraine would become available immediately to patients…
Read MoreSo 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.
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