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[1/26/2005] Migraines Linked to Endometriosis in Women
[1/26/2005] Botox does not prevent migraine attacks
[1/26/2005] Dissolvable aspirin effective for migraine
[1/26/2005] Mushrooms cause medical headaches, Japan
[10/15/2004] Migraine Drugs OK in Terms of Stroke, Heart Attack
[10/15/2004] Managing Migraine, Preventive Therapies Can Reduce the Frequency and and Severity of Acute Attacks
[10/15/2004] Sex change can cause headache
[10/15/2004] Weather is a trigger for migraine
[10/15/2004] Teens Abusing Nonprescription Painkillers Problem More Rampant Among Girls With Chronic Headaches
[2/15/2004] New developments in the pharmacotherapy of tension-type headaches
[2/15/2004] The role of anticonvulsants in preventive migraine therapy
[11/30/2002] High blood pressure does not cause headache.
[11/30/2002] Migraine ranks among top twenty disabling disorders.
WebMD Medical News By Jennifer Warner - Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD
Oct. 28, 2004 -- Women with endometriosis may be more prone to developing migraine headaches, according to a new study. Italian researchers found women with endometriosis, a condition in which tissue that lines the inside of the uterus develops outside the uterus, were twice as likely as other
women to suffer from migraines.
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Source: patienthealthinternational.com
Contrary to previous reports, injections of botulinum toxin A, also known as Botox, do not appear to prevent migraine headaches from occurring, researchers report. Over the past couple of years findings from a few studies have suggested that Botox may be beneficial to migrane sufferers.
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Source: Source: Reuters Health- DoctorNDTV.com
Effervescent aspirin, which dissolves in water, is as effective as the
drugs sumatriptan or ibuprofen used for the treatment of migraine
attacks.
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Source: medicalnewstoday.com
Close cooperation among experts from different fields of medicine
is needed to solve a mysterious acute brain disease affecting people
who ate sugihiratake mushrooms. Some people suffered from kidney disease.
The Japanese Society of Nephrology recently held a meeting in Tokyo to discuss the mysterious disease. A report presented by Prof. Fumitake Gejo of Niigata University's Faculty of Medicine, who is also president of the academic society, caused surprise among attendees.
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Migraine Drugs OK in Terms of Stroke, Heart Attack
SOURCE: Reuters Health
August 05, 2004
Aug 05 (Reuters Health) - There's reassuring news for people who have migraines: the modern "triptan" drugs that are effective for many sufferers do not increase the risk of having a heart attack or stroke, a new study shows.
http://www.heartcenteronline.com/myheartdr/home/research-detail.cfm?reutersid=4590
Managing Migraine, Preventive Therapies Can Reduce the Frequency and Severity of Acute Attacks
SOURCE: medicalnewstoday.com
August 16, 2004.
Preventive therapies can reduce the frequency and severity of acute attacks. When the attack does hit, abortive medications can usually return the patient to normal function within about two hours. Physicians can quickly screen for migraine with considerable accuracy. The linician's role, according to one migraine expert: ".it's the management decisions."
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=12116
Sex change can cause headache
SOURCE: Reuters
August 19, 2004
New York, August 19: New research involving male-to-female transsexuals lends further credence to the theory that sex hormones are involved in migraine generation, physicians report in the medical journal Neurology.
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=35212
Weather is a trigger for migraine
SOURCE: BBC News
July 19, 2004
Researchers have produced compelling evidence that weather conditions can trigger a migraine. More than half of people with headache were affected by the weather, Boston's Children's Hospital found.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3901397.stm#top
Teens Abusing Nonprescription Painkillers Problem More Rampant Among Girls With Chronic Headaches
SOURCE: American Headache Society 46th Annual Scientific Meeting, Vancouver
June 10-13, 2004.
June 11, 2004 -- It's a new trend in drug abuse: One in five kids -- especially girls -- are excessively taking nonprescription painkillers. The result can be chronic headaches and potentially serious medical problems like gastrointestinal bleeding and kidney failure.
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/88/100021.htm
New developments in the pharmacotherapy of tension-type headaches
SOURCE: Expert Opin Pharmacother
2003 Dec;4(12):2229-37.
(New developments in the pharmacotherapy of tension-type headaches.
Zhao C, Stillman MJ.
Department of Neurology, Section of Headache and Pain, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195-0001, USA)
”Tension type” headaches are the most common types of headaches people experience. Some people are chronically affected by tension headache whereas others might suffer from it only occasionally.
Tension headache is a “non specific” form of headache, meaning that this kind of pain has been defined by exclusion, as a sort of “residual” category that includes all the symptoms that do not pertain to other types of headaches such as migraine for example. Possibly for this reason, tension headaches have been sometimes treated through psychotherapy, relaxation and biofeedback and not many new drugs have emerged in the fight against tension-type headaches in recent years, even though a few studies support the use of drugs like the tricyclic antidepressants and the NSAIDs. But now that a new effort to research the potential utility of botulinum toxin “type A” has emerged, it is likely that the scientific community will also start testing other new drugs aimed at curing and preventing tension headache.
The role of anticonvulsants in preventive migraine therapy
SOURCE: Curr Pain Headache Rep
2003 Feb;7(1):63-6.
(The role of anticonvulsants in preventive migraine therapy.
Corbo J.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center, 1400 Pelham Parkway South, Bronx, NY 10462, USA)
Migraine is one of the most common form of headache. Its treatment normally relies on the use of drugs like aspirin and new anti-inflammatory remedies. At the beginning, the target of anti-migraine’s therapy was the fight against pain associated with it, whereas now it is becoming more and more important the prevention of the appearance of migraine itself.
In the recent past several medications like beta blockers, calcium-channel blockers, anticonvulsants, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have been used to prevent migraine headaches. Drugs developed to fight epilepsy (antiepileptics) are showing some promise in their ability to prevent migraine and their real effectiveness is starting to being investigated.
Recently, antiepilectic drugs have been used for other “off label” indications, especially in psychiatry: mood regulation, acute mania, behavioural disorders with very interesting results. Now the new possibility for these drugs comes from chronic headache and migraine. The mechanism of action of antiepileptics is not fully understood, but probably they enhance the gamma-aminobutyric acid-mediated inhibition. So far, Food and Drug Administration has approved only sodium valproate, an antiepileptic drug, for migraine prevention. But recent scientific studies showed that other drugs of the same category, like gabapentin and topiramate, might prove useful in their role to prevent migraine.
High blood pressure does not cause headache.
People with high blood pressure have reduced sensitivity to pain.
SOURCE: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
2002;72:463--6.
There is no tie between headache and high blood pressure. According to a Norwegian study, headache is less frequent among people with high blood pressure.
The Norwegian researchers claim that high blood pressure causes hypalgesia, a decreased sensitivity to pain. Hypalgesia raises the pain threshold, so that people with high blood pressure are less subject to headache.
The study involved over 22,000 adults. Those with maximum blood pressure (systolic pressure) over 150 mm Hg suffered headache less often than those with systolic blood pressure below 140 mm Hg. Basically, having a high minimum (diastolic pressure) reduced one's frequency of headache.
The results were valid also when people taking antihypertensive medication were included.
The normal range of blood pressure values lies below 130 mm Hg maximum and 85 mm Hg minimum.
Migraine ranks among top twenty disabling disorders.
Report by the World Health Organization.
SOURCE: World Health Organization
2002
Migraine ranks among the top twenty disabling disorders according to the World Health Organization in a study that analyzed data collected around the world. Migraine ranks twelfth in the classification for women and nineteenth for both sexes. The analysis used the criteria of life years lost due to disease. This unit of measurement is calculated for the number of years lived with suboptimal health.
Life years lost owing to migraine account for only 2% of the total lost due to all diseases for women and 1.4% for both sexes.
The disability migraine causes involves not only headachers but also their families and their community. Suffering from migraine can lead to economic and emotional problems, loss of work opportunities, and social and relational problems as well.
In the classification of the top twenty disorders, six included neuropsychiatric disorders.
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