Migraine News

Confusion abounds when headaches even have so many different names: tension, migraine, cluster, cervicogenic, ice pick, sinus, occipital neuralgia and trigeminal neuralgia.

Women who suffer with migraines are 26 per cent less likely to develop breast cancer, researchers have found.

In both premenopausal and postmenopausal women, a history of migraine may be independently associated with a significantly reduced risk of breast cancer, according to a study published in the July issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention .

The relationship between migraine headaches in women and a significant reduction in breast cancer risk has been confirmed in a follow-on study to landmark research published last year and conducted by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

For migraine sufferers, the pain can stop them in their tracks. The intense, pounding headaches aren't just a problem for adults and kids can suffer from them too.

Dear Dr. Gott: I have great empathy for the 16-year-old girl who suffers from headaches.

Claiming to have a migraine headache has become one of the most popular excuses for "pulling a sickie" from work, a survey suggests.

What's it about? Levy, an author and professor, keeps a migraine diary, trying to put into his own words what Emily Dickinson, Alexander Pope and Virginia Woolf have all included in their writing: the misery that is a migraine, and the fear of the next onslaught.

Growing up the second-oldest of nine children, Terry Tesoriero, 54, remembers clearly how often her mother needed her to look after siblings whenever she suffered one of her many debilitating headaches.

If you have migraines are you at greater risk of suffering a stroke? It's not entirely evident at this point, but a recent study on migraines noted that women who have migraines with aura in their "middle years" are more likely to have brain lesions later in life.

Queen's University biologists studying the locust have found that these human disorders are linked by a brain disturbance during which nerve cells shut down.

Queen's biologists are learning from locusts how the human brain may be manipulated to alleviate disease.

Migraine headaches are unlike any form of pain you have ever encountered. Those who never experienced the agony have a hard time comprehending the length to which a sufferer will go in order to end the ordeal.

There's a unique new way to be able to avoid suffering from medical conditions like arthritis and migraines.

WHEN, a couple of years ago in this space, I mentioned how two of the top migraine docs in the world were looking for locals to aid their research here in Pasadena, it apparently really helped in terms of turnout, as they got dozens of migraineurs together at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes for a study.

Imitrex is a popular choice among the many medications prescribed for migraine and headache pain relief.

Middle-aged women who experience migraines may have more to worry about than bad headaches.

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When the headache began, the one that would rule his life for about half a year, Andrew Levy, a Butler University English professor, was working on a book about Mark Twain.

Middle-aged and older women who have migraines with auras - the flashing lights, a certain smell, or other sights or sounds that can signal oncoming pain - appear to have a higher risk of strokes and heart attacks than their migraine-free peers, a new study suggests.