Headache & Migraine

Conference News Roundup—American Society of Anesthesiologists

Ketamine, a medication commonly used for pain relief and increasingly used for depression, may help alleviate migraine pain in patients who have...

Opiates are overused, and acute analgesics with high-quality evidence may be underused, for the treatment of migraine, according to research...

STANFORD, CA—Headache specialists have created a new app intended to support patients with headache pain. Developed by board-certified headache...

BOSTON—The interpretation of clinical trial results can stray from the data in many ways. Creating spin (ie, stressing an experimental treatment’s...

Neurologists and patients may be able to predict migraine attacks using a model based on the level of stress from daily hassles, according to...

Headache in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) appears to be clinically independent of raised intracranial pressure and may require a...

BOSTON—Patients with migraine may have greater fluctuation in headache frequency than was previously understood. The rate of transition from...

BOSTON—Noninvasive vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) is well tolerated and effectively aborts episodic cluster headache attacks, according to a pooled...

BOSTON—Over five years after traumatic brain injury (TBI), a relatively large (24% to 30%) group of individuals experience chronic headache pain...

BOSTON—A new class of drugs for the prevention of chronic and episodic migraine demonstrated promising results in recent phase II and phase III...