THURSDAY, Aug. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A migraine drug can help stop the devastating headaches in their tracks, allowing sufferers to go about their daily lives with little to no symptoms, a new clinical trial has found. People who took ubrogepant (Ubrelvy) were 73% more likely to say theyContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — High blood pressure might increase a woman’s odds of suffering migraines, a new study finds. Specifically, high diastolic blood pressure is linked to a slightly higher risk of women ever having a migraine, researchers reported July 31 in the journal Neurology. Diastolic pressureContinue Reading
THURSDAY, June 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It’s a nasty cycle: Chronic migraine sufferers who use too much pain medication sometimes get smacked with rebound headaches. But new research suggests that a medication commonly used to prevent migraines may also help fend off rebound headaches. The study of 755 peopleContinue Reading
SUNDAY, June 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — When there’s pain, pressure and pounding in your head, you might think the worst: Is it a brain tumor? Probably not, a Penn State physician assures. Headache in and of itself is not a common sign of a tumor, because the brain itselfContinue Reading
MONDAY, June 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Nerve surgery can reduce the number of headache days for people who suffer frequent migraines, a new review finds. The procedure also can decrease the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks, according to results published in the June issue of the journal PlasticContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People taking heartburn meds have a higher risk of migraines and other types of severe headaches, a new study warns. All classes of acid-reducing drugs — proton pump inhibitors, H2 blockers, and even antacids — appear to promote an increased risk of migraineContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Among U.S. women with migraine, a third say the attacks tend to coincide with their periods, a new survey finds. Migraines that occur during menstruation are often frequent and severe, but only about one in five respondents said they used medications aimed atContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Migraines in young adults appear to increase their risk of stroke more than traditional risk factors like high blood pressure, a new study reports. Results show that migraine is the most important non-traditional risk factor for stroke among adults ages 18 to 34,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, March 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Astronauts who have never had headaches may develop migraines and other tension-type headaches for the first time when they go into space. A side effect of zero gravity, these headaches start with motion sickness as astronauts adapt to long-haul space flight, according toContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Vaping and skipped meals appear to be the main causes of frequent headaches among teens, a new study says. Teens who ate breakfast and dinner with their family had a lower risk of frequent headaches than those who regularly missed meals, researchers reportContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Factors like sleep, energy levels and stress can predict the onset of a migraine headache, a new study finds. Those factors differed from the morning to the afternoon and evening, however. Poor perceived sleep quality, lower-than-usual quality of sleep and lower-than-usual energy levelsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Migraines are not only extremely painful, but they also appear to pose a driving risk for seniors, a new study warns. Older adult drivers recently diagnosed with migraines are three times more likely to be involved in a car crash, researchers reported recentlyContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Migraine sufferers would do better to talk to their doctor about a prescription drug than reaching for a bottle of ibuprofen, a new study finds. Drugs like triptans, ergots and anti-emetics can be two to five times more effective for treating migraines thanContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 29, 2023 (Healthday News) — Your neck muscles could be giving you headaches, claims new German research that used special MRI scans to spot the connection. “Our imaging approach provides [the] first objective evidence for the very frequent involvement of the neck muscles in primary headaches, such asContinue Reading