When treated with a low-dose of hormones from a contraceptive device, women with migraine with aura and menstrual-related migraine experienced significant improvement in both disorders. These results in a recent study bring potentially good news for many women, but the lead author of the study,…
For several years, health professionals have known that children who are abused more frequently develop migraine than those who did not experience that kind of trauma. Now, a new study has found that, among women, many types of adversity during childhood may raise the risk…
White matter brain lesions are more likely to occur in older people with a history of any kind of severe headache, not just migraine as was previously thought. Brain lesions are tiny ruptures in arteries that supply blood to the white matter of the brain….
When TV reporter Serene Branson began scrambling her words on live TV while covering the Grammys, it was assumed she was having a stroke. In fact, she was having an unusual form of migraine, called complicated migraine. Complicated (or complex) migraine can have symptoms similar…
Evidence continues to mount about a link between migraine with aura and cardiovascular disease. Two new studies reported in BMJ (British Medical Journal) found an increased risk for earlier death from any cause, including heart disease and stroke. Researchers were quick to note, however, that…
A team of researchers that has been studying the relationship between childhood abuse and migraine has found another ramification of early mistreatment—migraineurs who were victims of abuse or neglect have an increased risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. The researchers, from 11 neurology centers in…
The invisibility of headaches increases the stigma surrounding them, especially for people with chronic migraines, according to a team of researchers from the Jefferson Headache Clinic at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. In fact, chronic migraine sufferers experience more stigma than people with stroke,…
Migraineurs have a higher risk for not only cardiovascular disease, but for related problems including diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. This finding, reported in the online version of Neurology, is true for migraineurs with or without aura. Previous studies found a correlation between…
The link between stroke and migraine is in the news again. In an attempt to clear up conflicting findings from some studies, researchers from John Hopkins University School of Medicine reviewed 21 studies that involved over 622,000 people. Their analysis affirmed that having migraine increases…
Women migraineurs who continue to suffer from attacks during pregnancy may be at an increased risk for a variety of vascular problems, especially stroke. According to a large population-based study, women who have migraines during pregnancy are 15 times more likely to have a stroke…
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