Sentences with phrase «many migraine patients»

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«Eptinezumab represents a meaningful opportunity to transform treatment for migraine patients, and I look forward to working alongside Alder's talented team of scientists, physicians and employees.»

A 2013 study took 21 migraine patients and put them on an elimination diet after doing an IgG anti-body test to assess for food intolerances.

For migraine patients with with no auras, the cause of the pain is less apparent.

Not only does the study suggest these drugs are safe for this subset of migraine patients, it could also have implications for the nearly 10 million migraine sufferers who experience auras — a disturbance in vision, touch, speech, thinking, or strength that usually precedes a migraine headache.

A team of researchers led by Prof. Tobias Kurth, Head of the Institute of Public Health (IPH) at Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has now been able to establish the following: female migraine patients have a higher risk of stroke or heart attacks than women without migraine.

But he notes that NSAIDS taken by migraine patients may account for the lower cancer risk as previous studies have shown.

«Migraine patients are more likely to have signs and symptoms of TMD, but the reverse is not true.

However, this research was the first to consider the frequency of migraine attacks when analyzing its connection with TMD: eighty - four women in their early to mid-thirties were assessed, being that 21 were chronic migraine patients, 32 had episodic migraine, while 32 with no history of migraine were included as controls — the results were published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics.

Migraine sufferers have significantly higher sodium concentrations in their cerebrospinal fluid than people without the condition, according to the first study to use a technique called sodium MRI to look at migraine patients.

Consequently, many migraine patients are undiagnosed and untreated.

«Further studies are needed to elucidate whether vitamin supplementation is effective in migraine patients in general, and whether patients with mild deficiency are more likely to benefit from supplementation,» says Suzanne Hagler, MD, a Headache Medicine fellow in the division of Neurology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and lead author of the study.

By the early 20th century clinicians turned their attention to the role of the blood vessels, inspired in part by observations of strong pulsing of the temporal arteries in migraine patients, as well as patients» descriptions of throbbing pain and the relief they got from compression of the carotid arteries.

In the 19th century medical electricity had become all the rage, and migraine patients were routinely jolted with a variety of inventions, including the hydroelectric bath, which was basically an electrified tub of water.

«Our study demonstrates the high functional disability experienced by migraine patients, compared to those with other pain conditions,» comments ASPS Member Surgeon William Gerald Austen, Jr, of Massachusetts General Hospital.

More than 20 percent of migraine patients report that they feel better even when they are given a placebo.

Dr. Richard Kraig is an expert in migraine patient care, migraine research and cerebrovascular disease research.

A «complex» of brain metabolites distinguish altered chemistry in the cingulate cortex of episodic migraine patients Becerra L, Veggeberg R, Prescot A, Jensen JE, Renshaw P, Scrivani S, Spierings EL, Burstein R, Borsook D. NeuroImage Clinical.

An antibody therapy against a key inflammatory molecule involved in migraines reduces the number of headaches that chronic migraine patients experience per month in a phase III trial A new s...

Migraine patients have presented with lower serum magnesium levels compared to normal control groups of the same age without migraine headaches.

Because TMS has already been shown to be safe for the treatment of depression — and at much higher doses (i.e., the number of pulses)-- it offers a «gigantic margin of safety» to migraine patients, Dr. Lipton says.

«This may be a technique that will help a small number of migraine patients who have responded to Botox, but it's certainly not a procedure for generally treating migraines,» says Dr. Kunkel, who was not involved in the new study.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not yet approved the device, but if it does earn approval, migraine patients could use it as an alternative to drugs, or in conjunction with medications, Dr. Lipton says.

But by putting migraine patients on very restricted diets, and then adding foods back into the diet, one at a time, researchers have been able to identify several common food triggers, which I call the «migraine dirty dozen»: apples, bananas, chocolate, citrus fruits, corn, dairy products, eggs, meat, nuts, onions, tomatoes, and wheat.

For some migraine patients, including myself, the daith piercing has served as the much needed holistic method of relief as opposed to medication.

Neurologist Stasha Gominak came to a similar conclusion when she discovered a large portion of her migraine patients had sleep problems that were caused by vitamin D deficiency.

Researchers surveyed 800 migraine patients along with 200 who suffer from cluster headaches.

Sixty percent of the migraine patients indicated experiencing relief from headaches.

The research found a 4.1 percent incidence of heart attacks in the migraine patients, compared with 1.9 percent in those without the debilitating headaches.

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Finally, in our study of symptoms, we found patients with higher unconventional natural gas development activity had higher odds of nasal and sinus, migraine headache and fatigue symptoms compared to those with lower activity.

Alder BioPharmaceuticals, Inc., is a clinical - stage biopharmaceutical company committed to transforming the treatment paradigm for patients with migraine and other serious neurological or inflammatory conditions.

Only about 200 patients or fewer will take Valeant's branded version of the migraine drug this year, amounting to less than $ 1 million in sales (about 0.01 % of the company's annual revenue).

Coverage or not, Valeant said that less than 1 % of patients still take Valeant's branded migraine drug, with Perrigo (prgo), which makes a generic, outselling the branded version 250 to 1.

I would love to recommend this to my patients with migraines, especially those who have problems with the medications.

The majority of these patients experienced significant improvements with a reduced frequency and severity of migraine attacks on the elimination diet (9)

It was concluded in a 2003 Italian study that «a significant proportion of patients with migraine may have celiac disease, and that a gluten free diet may lead to a improvement in the migraine in these patients.»

They treat patients with common diseases such as polyneuropathy and migraine.

Yet in some of these patients, it also triggers a migraine attack within six hours.

In 1999, a study showed that the toxin can reduce migraines by as much as 50 percent among patients predisposed to them.

«And it seems very, very likely that nitric oxide in the brain has some role in triggering migraines — not just in heart patients but in all patients.»

According to the authors, placebo effects can dramatically enhance the effectiveness of pharmaceutical therapies, as shown in studies of patients with irritable bowel disease and episodic migraine.

Doctors might order a CT or MRI scan for a headache or migraine to put patients» minds at ease about fears that a malignant brain tumor, aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation or other issue might be causing their symptoms.

In all, 51.1 million headache - related patient visits occurred between 2007 and 2010 — nearly half of them related to migraine.

In fact, several national guidelines for doctors specifically discourage scanning the brains of patients who complain of headache and migraine.

Symptoms such as migraines or joint pain would recur in response to whatever substances the individual patient was sensitive to.

They searched for patients who had symptoms pointing to a basilar or hemiplegic migraine diagnosis and also received either a triptan or DHE treatment.

After treatment, the patients experienced migraines 2 to 10 days per month.