Headache & Migraine
From the Journals
Occipital nerve stimulation offers relief for patients with intractable chronic cluster headache
The frequency of attacks may decrease with neuromodulation intervention, a new trial suggests.
Literature Review
Updated consensus statement assesses new migraine treatments
The AHS offers a consensus statement, but not everyone agrees.
Conference Coverage
Novel NSAID–triptan drug effectively relieves migraine pain
About 74% of patients who received AXS-07 experienced no progression of pain from 2 to 24 hours.
Conference Coverage
Women with migraine are ‘high-risk’ patients during pregnancy
Pregnant women with migraine had more diabetes, hypertension, blood clots, more complications during delivery, and more postpartum complications...
Conference Coverage
COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective for patients with migraine
The only real clinical concern clinicians may need to consider is the headache differential for women under age 60 who call with a headache a week...
Conference Coverage
BBB integrity linked to cortical spreading depression
A model blood-brain barrier system suggests reorganization of proteins leads to loss of integrity after a simulated CSD event.
Conference Coverage
No increased risk of hypertension with erenumab?
The rate of hypertension adverse events in postmarketing data was 0.144 per 100 person-years.
Conference Coverage
Moving more, sitting less vital for migraine patients
Encouraging patients with migraine to regularly physically exercise is important to managing their symptoms and overall health, but so is simply...
Conference Coverage
Ubrogepant effective for acute migraine even with preventive monoclonal antibody therapy
Despite sharing similar mechanisms, the use of ubrogepant for acute migraine attacks in people already taking CGRP-targeting monoclonal antibody...
Conference Coverage
Migraine linked to more COVID-19 infections, symptoms but less health care utilization
People with migraine are either more susceptible to contracting COVID-19, or they may be more sensitive to the development of symptoms once COVID-...
Conference Coverage
Chronic headache pain in veterans linked to suicide attempts
U.S. veterans with chronic headache pain had an increased risk of attempting suicide compared with vets with chronic neck or back pain,...