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Oct 27th 2008Drug InformationHeadache / Migraine
Targeting a system which utilises peptides in the brain during a migraine could be the future of treatment for this debilitating condition. The future and recent developments in the field of migraine are discussed in a Comment in this week’s edition of The Lancet, written by Dr Stephen D Silberstein, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Oct 27th 2008Drug InformationHeadache / Migraine
New research unveiled at TCT 2008 by Dr. Stephen Silberstein (a leading neurologist) suggests that 66 percent of chronic migraine sufferers have abnormal blood flow caused by a hole in their heart or a right-to-left shunt that bypasses the filtration process of the lungs. Most of these defects are known as a PFO, a heart condition prior research shows is found in 25 percent of the population.
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Oct 13th 2008Drug InformationHeadache / Migraine
A novel therapy using a miniature nerve stimulator instead of medication for the treatment of profoundly disabling headache disorders improved the experience of pain by 80-95 percent, according to a new study from the University of California, San Francisco and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.
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