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News: May 28, 2012
Two-Drug Combo Helps Teens With Migraines
TUESDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- A two-drug combination that relieves migraines in adults also works well in adolescents, new research indicates. Although the findings basically support what doctors are already doing, "it is nice to have this o...
Migraines More Likely for People With Celiac Disease, Study Says
THURSDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- Migraine headaches are more likely to plague people with celiac disease than those without it, according to new research. The connection between the digestive tract and the brain has been studied in Europe, but ...
'Ice Cream Headaches' Might Offer Clues to Migraines
SUNDAY, April 22 (HealthDay News) -- That "brain freeze" headache you experience when eating ice cream or other cold foods may be caused by a sudden change in brain blood flow, researchers report. What's more, the new research might point to targe...
Hormonal Changes May Trigger Migraines in Some Women
FRIDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- Hormonal changes are a major reason women are far more likely than men to have migraine headaches, research suggests. About 30 million Americans suffer from migraines, and women are nearly three times more like...
Power of Acupuncture to Ease Migraines Questioned in Study
MONDAY, Jan. 9 (HealthDay News) -- "Sham" acupuncture worked almost as well on migraine patients as three types of traditional acupuncture, a new study says. Randomly assigning 480 patients to one of four groups at nine Chinese hospitals -- one sh...
Regular Exercise Seems to Guard Against Migraine
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise can prevent migraines just as well as drugs or relaxation techniques, a new study from Sweden suggests. "Our conclusion is that exercise can act as an alternative to relaxations and [the migraine dru...
Implantable Device May Help Ease Tough Migraines
THURSDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- An implantable device hidden in the nape of the neck may mean more headache-free days for people with severe migraines that don't respond to other treatments, a new study suggests. More than 36 million America...
For Many, Weight-Loss Surgery Also Eases Migraines
WEDNESDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Severely obese patients who suffer from migraines may see them fade or become less frequent after having weight-reducing gastric bypass surgery, University of Iowa researchers say. In the three years followin...
Scientists Identify Genes Linked to Migraines
SUNDAY, June 12 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified three genes linked to migraine headache and found that people who inherit any one of these genes have a 10 to 15 percent greater risk for the condition. Migraine headache -- an abnorm...
Special Tinted Glasses May Stymie Migraines
THURSDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- Precision-tinted glasses seem to help prevent migraines in people whose pain is triggered by certain visual patterns, new research indicates. Up to 42 percent of people who have migraines accompanied by visual ...
Common Birth Defect May Be Linked to Migraine With Aura
THURSDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) -- There may be a link between certain types of migraines in children and a common congenital heart defect, a new study suggests. U.S. researchers looked at 109 children aged 6 to 18 who were diagnosed with migr...
TV Reporter's Severe Migraine Mimicked a Stroke
FRIDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Many people who watched Los Angeles TV reporter Serene Branson suffer what appeared to be a stroke while covering the Grammy awards last Sunday were no doubt relieved to hear her troubles were apparently caused ...
A Lifetime of Migraines
TUESDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Judy Brown says she has suffered from terrible migraine headaches since she was in her teens. Brown, now 51 and living in Nashua, N.H., remembers being out with friends when she was 16 and having a migraine com...
Got a Headache? Your Body May Be Telling You Something
TUESDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Headaches are truly miserable things. There's little good to be said about throbbing, crushing, skull-pounding pain that makes you wince and moan. Yet headaches can tell a lot about a person. They can indicate ...
Botox Approved for Chronic Migraines
MONDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA) injection has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prevent chronic migraines among people who get the painful headaches more than 14 days per month. Botox, made fr...
New Migraine Gene Discovered
SUNDAY, Aug. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Having a particular variation of a gene on chromosome 8 may raise the risk of getting migraines, new research shows. While migraines have long been believed to have a genetic component, pinpointing specific gene...
Migraine With Aura Linked to Small Rise in Heart, Stroke Risks
TUESDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- People who suffer migraines with aura are at increased risk of dying from heart disease and stroke, but the individual risk for a migraine sufferer is low, two new studies show. Auras -- temporary visual or sen...
For Migraine Sufferers, Stigma Adds to Burden
FRIDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- People who suffer from chronic migraine headaches feel more rejected, ridiculed, and ostracized by family, friends, and employers than patients with other neurological troubles, a new study contends. And the mor...
Treatment Helped Soldiers With Migraine, Insomnia: Study
WEDNESDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment helped improve sleep quality for U.S. soldiers who suffered from migraine headaches after returning from the war in Iraq, a new study found. Migraine is known to affect about 19 percent of soldiers ...
Abuse May Raise Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke in Migraine Sufferers
WEDNESDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- Adults who suffer migraines and were victims of childhood abuse or neglect face an increased risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, a new study suggests. The multi-center, cross-sectional study ...
New Migraine Drug Might Be Safer for Some
THURSDAY, April 22 (HealthDay News) -- A drug under development could help patients with migraines, while an existing epilepsy drug might prevent the headaches from developing in the first place, new research suggests. The report, published April ...
New Hope for Migraine Patients
THURSDAY, March 4 (HealthDay News) -- A hand-held device that delivers a magnetic pulse to the head may offer relief for some migraine sufferers, researchers report. The findings, which apply to migraine sufferers who experience "aura," expand on ...
Chronic Migraines Take a Greater Toll
THURSDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that there's a difference between people who have migraines a lot and those who have them less often: The most frequent sufferers are in worse health overall, poorer and more depressed. T...
Why Light Hurts During Migraines
SUNDAY, Jan. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers believe they know why light exacerbates the already debilitating pain of migraines, even in some blind people. A report published online Jan. 10 in Nature Neuroscience reveals how visual and pain pat...
Migraine Increases Likelihood of Stroke
MONDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- People who suffer migraines have more than double the risk of ischemic stroke, and the risk is especially high in women, a new study has found. Ischemic stroke, the most common type of stroke, occurs when blood ...
Migraine With Aura Can Double Stroke Risk
TUESDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Women who get migraine headaches with aura should stop smoking and using birth control pills because they may increase their risk of stroke, researchers say. For people who suffer migraine headaches with aura -...
Hangovers May Be Tougher for Migraine Sufferers
MONDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- As if migraine sufferers didn't already have enough pain, new research has found that they may also be more prone to hangover headaches. U.S. researchers studied the effects of alcohol on a group of rats that ex...
School Days Give Some Kids a Headache
THURSDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Returning to school may also mean a return of headaches in children who tend to get them, doctors say. More than one-third of children experience recurrent headaches, involving pain that occurs more than once ...
New Migraine Drug Shows Promise
FRIDAY, Aug. 14 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental inhaled drug called Levadex is an effective treatment for migraines, according to a drug company-funded study. The phase III trial, conducted at the Jefferson Headache Center at Thomas Jefferson ...
Plastic Surgery Technique Might Ease Migraines
FRIDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) -- Thanks to a procedure borrowed from cosmetic surgery, Michelle Cramer has now lost most of her frequent and debilitating migraine headaches, as well as her frown lines. Cramer, a graphics illustrator in Williams...
Migraines Linked to Reduced Breast Cancer Risk
THURSDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) -- For women who suffer from migraines, here's a bit of good news: New research shows that your risk of breast cancer may be reduced by as much as 26 percent. And, no matter what a woman's age or what migraine tri...
Migraine Frequency Tied to Stroke, Heart Attack Risk
WEDNESDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) -- The research team that found an increased risk of stroke in women who had a certain kind of migraine now reports a relationship between migraine frequency and heart attacks. "Our earlier study showed an incre...
Migraine With Aura May Lead to Brain Lesions
TUESDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- Women who've had migraines with auras have an increased risk of developing brain lesions, a new study has found. Whether these small areas of damaged brain tissue affect function or cognition, however, remains ...
Migraines in Pregnancy Boost Vascular Risks
TUESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- Women who have migraines during pregnancy are 15 times more likely than other women to suffer a stroke, twice as likely to have heart disease and three times more likely to have blood clots and other vascular ...
Clues Found to BrainMechanism Behind Migraines
WEDNESDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists believe they may have found the biological trigger to a particular type of migraine headache. In the March 12 issue of Neuron, an Italian university study on mice found that increased levels of th...
Warmer-Than-Average Temperatures Raise Migraine Risk
MONDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- If you think changes in the weather bring on migraines, it might not be all in your head. Harvard researchers report in a new study that people are more likely to visit emergency rooms with migraines if the outs...
Exploring Genetic Link Between Migraines, Cardiovascular Trouble
TUESDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) -- In a finding that speaks to the complicated connection between having migraines with aura and an increased risk of cardiovascular trouble, Harvard researchers report that a gene variant that was suspected to be...
Belly Fat May Make Migraines More Likely
THURSDAY, Feb. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Being overweight may increase the risk of migraine headaches in young and middle-aged adults, suggests a U.S. study that included 22,211 people. Age, gender and the way body fat was distributed affected migrai...
Hormones Boost Frequency of Women's Migraine With Aura
MONDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) -- In women, hormones increase the frequency of an inherited form of severe migraine accompanied by visual disturbances called auras, according to a Massachusetts General Hospital study. Like other types of migrain...
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