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Unintentional Overdoses and Medicine Labels: What You Need to Know
Chances are you’ve come into contact with a label today. Whether on a breakfast bar, a tube of toothpaste, or a bottle of sunscreen, labels are part of our daily lives and provide important health information and directions to keep us safe. When it comes…
16 September, 2015
Are You Reading Your Labels?
Chances are you’ve come into contact with a label today. Whether on a breakfast bar, a tube of toothpaste, or a bottle of sunscreen, labels are part of our daily lives and provide important health information and directions to keep us safe. When it comes…
02 September, 2015
Tips on Avoiding Holiday Headaches from the National Headache Foundation
Holidays are a time for family, friends, and happy memories. But those joyful moments can be associated with stress – from marathon shopping, preparing for celebrations, and traveling. Stress and other stimuli may trigger or increase your headaches. The National Headache Foundation recommends the following…
16 December, 2014
Products in the Pipeline: Migraine Drugs Show Promise but Advance Slowly
Medications to prevent migraine have been slow in coming, but a treatment approach currently being studied suggests that a new type of drug may benefit countless migraineurs. This new method employs agents that block a protein called calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), which plays a crucial…
15 December, 2014
Screening Tool Designed to Help Diagnose Chronic Migraine
Researchers have developed a new screening tool to help identify chronic migraine in individuals experiencing frequent headaches. Over a 3-year period, Dawn Buse, PhD, and colleagues developed a 12-item questionnaire that both patients and physicians can use to improve diagnosis and treatment of chronic migraine,…
15 December, 2014
What You Need to Know This Cold and Flu Season
It’s that time of year again: cold and flu season is here. As you stock your medicine cabinet to combat coughs and stuffy noses, remember to double check your medicine labels so you don’t double up on medicines containing acetaminophen. Acetaminophen is the most common…
20 October, 2014
Sleep and Medication May Help Migraine-Related Dizziness
Q. Even after a migraine attack my balance is still off, sometimes for days. Is this a common problem? A. Dizziness and balance being off in a way that is hard to describe is not an uncommon neurological symptom that can occur before, during, or…
15 October, 2013
Nerve Stimulation May Show Promise for Migraineurs
A new nerve stimulation device used to treat headache and migraine recently showed promise in the first randomized, controlled study of its kind. The device, Cefaly ®, works by sending high frequency neurostimulation to the trigeminal nerve, which is frequently involved in head pain. Researchers...
15 March, 2013
FDA Approves Skin Patch for Migraine Treatment
Migraineurs who have a difficult time taking pills to alleviate their symptoms may soon be able to obtain migraine relief from a skin patch. Last month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Zecuity, a single-use, battery-powered patch that delivers sumatriptan, the most commonly used…
15 February, 2013
