The Amazing Feat of a Normal Life
Only six months ago, I wrote about how little I got done on a good day. Now, nearly every day I wake up in the morning, do stuff all day, then go to bed. Often I don’t pick up my Kindle or check Facebook until…
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Mindfulness for Depression
Mindfulness as a tool for coping with depression is often distilled into “thinking your way out” of depression — which angers pretty much anyone who has ever struggled with depression. Mindfulness is more about becoming aware of how negative thoughts build on each other and…
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Opioids Under-Prescribed Due to Addiction Fears?
Fear of Addiction Means Chronic Pain Goes Untreated, according to an NPR story that aired last weekend. While there’s definitely some truth to the headline, it obscures the nuances of physicians’ reluctance to prescribe opioids (a.k.a narcotics) for chronic pain in general and headache disorders…
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Candesartan Trial (and Overlooking the Obvious)
Candesartan (Atacand), a medication for high blood pressure, has recently shown to be quite effective for migraine prevention. After writing about it for Migraine.com (Candesartan: Effective Preventive, Low Weight Gain Risk) and having the week of more severe than usual migraine pain, I finally decided…
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Promising Migraine Preventive Drugs Target CGRP
Positive findings from two phase II clinical trials of promising migraine preventive medications were announced today (here’s the full press release). If these drugs make it to market, they’ll be the first developed specifically for migraine prevention. These drugs are the first to test monoclonal…