The Migraine World Summit is the largest patient event in the world for migraine and headache disorders. The Migraine World Summit will bring together 32 experts, including doctors and specialists, to share new treatments, research, and strategies to help you improve your migraine and chronic headache....
A powerful new digital health platform: Discover what affects the occurrence of your migraine attacks Curelator Inc. is seeking people with migraine, who experience two or more attacks per month, to try out a new version of their app, which may help them better self-manage their condition. Instead...
At the National Headache Foundation, our mission is to create a world free of headache, and any associated pain and suffering. We work towards this vision through awareness, advocacy, education, and research. Under the research umbrella specifically, we support clinical research into potential headache causes...
Migraine and caffeine has long been a complicated relationship. While caffeine has been used to treat acute migraine, there is also evidence that too much of it can be a bad thing for migraine patients. More studies have been done to further complicate this issue. A...
A national survey of more than 3,900 individuals with migraine reflects the impact the disease has on their life beyond the pain and frustration of finding an effective treatment. Many respondents reported difficulty receiving a diagnosis when they were young and said they continued to...
Many women suffer from menstrual migraine attacks, which are often more debilitating, longer, more likely to recur, and less responsive to treatment than migraines not related to the menstrual cycle. Information on how best to prevent menstrual migraine is scant, and until recently no evidence-based review...
Obesity-related proteins called adipokines may serve as biomarkers for the pain associated with migraine and migraine treatment response, according to information presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Management last month. "This is exciting research and while further studies … are needed,...
Quality communication is critical between patients and health care professionals, but a new study has found that it often falls short between patients with chronic migraine and their physicians. This situation leads to suboptimal treatment, according to a new study that included 20 neurologists from...
Q: I am a sufferer of SUNCT (short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing), and doctors have recommended prophylactic cranial irradiation for my small cell lung cancer. Can you tell me what effect this radiation will have on me regarding SUNCT? Is the radiation...
Migraineurs and those who suffer from cluster headaches may find relief from the pain with the help of a new procedure that uses lidocaine, a common topical anesthetic. When evaluating the treatment, called image-guided, intranasal sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) blocks, researchers inserted a spaghetti-sized catheter through the...