Headache and Migraine

Headaches that occur several days before menses as well as disabling headaches on days unrelated to menses... how would you help this young woman?

If the goal of headache therapy for adolescent migraineurs is a pain-free adult life, here's a road map.

What Rx for adolescent migraineurs? Ideal care for menstrual migraine? Perfect patient for new CGRP inhibitors? Answers in this PCP Special Report.

This brief slide show toplines key research from the 58th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society, June 1-4, 2016.

Headache is common, but the diagnosis is not always easy. Take this quick quiz to test what you know.

Using music in medicine is an ancient practice. Here we review recent research efforts to better understand and apply music’s healing powers.

A neurologist who treats headache has his eyes opened to the real possibility of marijuana as medicinal.

Here's intriguing evidence that certain structural changes in the brain may be related to chronic migraines.

They work all week at stressful jobs without a headache--and spend the weekend in bed with a breakthrough migraine. What to do for them?

Do you know what drugs current guidelines recommend? Get an 8-slide update, here.

If one triptan doesn't work for your patient's migraines, try, try again. A neurologist offers tips on the pros and cons of the 6 available agents.

Diseases of the nervous system and sense organs-particularly eye and ear disorders-are prime diagnoses that bring patients to your primary care practice.

By asking and answering these questions, I learned some new tricks that can help you help migraine sufferers.

Triptan and ergotamine drugs are staples of acute migraine treatment. But questions about their cardiovascular safety linger in the absence of clear evidence. A short slide show looks at what we do know.

A 29-year-old man presented with a 4-year history of headache and severe neck pain. What does the cervical MRI scan without contrast reveal?

Studies of the first specific mechanism-based treatments may harken a new era of prevention.

The current study may help create new pathways for better understanding and developing more effective and more specific medications.

Most patients have a sophisticated idea of what causes their headaches, but the chances of this information being wrong are higher than desirable unless the patient formally experimented with triggers.

This condition is a more important risk factor than previously thought and should not be taken lightly.