Learning that research has found connections between migraine and stroke and heart disease can be chilling. Fortunately, the news is not as bad as it might first appear. I spoke with headache specialist Gretchen Tietjen, M.D., about an article on the connection between migraine and an increased risk…
Through Headache on the Hill, patients and healthcare providers lobby members of Congress each year to increase NIH funding for research into headache disorders. The first year, participants were told that they would have to raise “big noise” in their own communities to see a…
The logistics of finding a CGRP drug study are relatively simple—the hard parts are meeting the study criteria and living close enough (or being able to travel) to a location that needs trial participants. Finding Clinical Trials ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of medical studies around the world. You can…
You’ve probably heard that monoclonal antibodies that inhibit CGRP are the exciting treatment in development for migraine prevention, but details have been scarce. New Migraine Drugs Promise Relief—But at a Steep Price is a different look at the drugs than has been published thus far. I’ve hit some highlights below…
I imagine that migraine has worn grooves into my brain, creating a map that will help researchers explore the wilderness of migraine. Although I know the changes are not so literal and visible, I’ve talked about donating my brain to migraine research for at least a decade. I want the agony I…