People with nasal allergies may have a greater incidence of migraine, according to a recent study. The study, which had 294 participants, found that 34% of people with hay fever (aka allergic rhinitis) had migraine symptoms; only 4% of participants without hay fever had such…
Reading Google news on migraine this morning, I came across an article about my favorite baseball team. Very strange. Turns out that one of the rookies, Conor Jackson, had to leave a game on Saturday because of a migraine. He’s too new to the majors…
In response to the FDA’s alert in July about the possibility of serotonin syndrome when people on antidepressants use triptans, HEADQuarters Migraine Management has released special bulletin on serotonin syndrome and medications. It’s a clear explanation of what migraineurs need to know about the illness….
While I was away from e-mail last week, I received three messages from Dan Charron at HeadOn, telling me that the doctor quoted in the story that questions HeadOn’s effectiveness had issued a retraction. Dr. Larry Newman’s “retraction” looks more like a clarification to me….
That’s what a New York Times article from yesterday says about migraine! (That’s right, the New York Times.) The article begins, “Everything you thought you knew about migraine headaches — except that they are among the worst nonfatal afflictions of humankind — may be wrong….