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Posttraumatic Headache More Common When Injury Is Mild
Major Finding: The prevalence of new or worsened headache at 1 year after TBI was 58% in the cohort with mild injury, compared with 34% in the...
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Acute Use of Rizatriptan for Migraine Safe, Effective in Teens
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'Visual Snow' May Be a Distinct Clinical Entity
Major Finding: Slightly more than half of patients with ‘visual snow’ have migraine, and the patients nearly always have other visual symptoms,...
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Cortical Thickening Observed in Patients With Frequent Migraines
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Chronic Migraine Linked to More Stressful Life Events
Major Finding: Relative to their counterparts with episodic migraine, patients with chronic migraine were more likely to report a greater number...
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Neurostimulation May Work When Migraine Drugs Fail
Major Finding: About 70% of patients in the neurostimulation group reported excellent or fair pain relief at 12 weeks, compared with only 20% of...
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Methadone Deaths Outpace Mortality for Other Opioids
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Studies Examine Scenarios of Changing Triptan Regimens
Major Finding: Headache-related disability among patients taking a triptan worsened by 31% in patients who switched to an NSAID and was worst...
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Mass. Insurer Clamps Down on Opioid Prescriptions
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New Device Cuts Fibromyalgia Pain in Pilot Study
Major Finding: Patients with chronic fibromyalgia pain averaged a 45% pain-score cut following treatment with transcranial magnetic stimulation....