http://www.migraine-facts.co.uk Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:36:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Excedrin is a migraine treatment created by Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical company. It has recently decided to withdraw the medicine from sale in South Africa after a previous withdrawal of the medication in the United States. The Federal Drug Administration in the United States, and the equivalent South African body, ... http://www.migraine-facts.co.uk/2012/02/major-migraine-treatment-withdrawn/ The guidelines and recommendations for how clinical trials on migraines should be conducted have been updated by the International Headache Society. All new trials should be standardised and take an evidence-based approach, and should be both controlled and randomised. The previous guidelines were created before the recent boom in clinical research. ... http://www.migraine-facts.co.uk/2012/02/clinical-trials-on-migraines-set-to-change/ A PREMICE clinical trial has proved that Cefaly® is a medical device with great efficiency at preventing migraines and has the best safety ration when measured against the other treatments available. A press conference took place in November at the Liege Science Part and the chief investigator, Prof. Jean Schoenen, ... http://www.migraine-facts.co.uk/2012/01/cefaly-and-migraine/ Millions of people worldwide suffer the debilitating pain of Migraine headaches, and a recent study using mice suggests that these kind of headaches could be linked to tiny areas of brain damage that is akin to strokes. These findings also suggest that treatments that prevent migraines can also prevent other, ... http://www.migraine-facts.co.uk/2012/01/possible-migraine-stroke-connection/ Of the 18% of the population who suffer from the debilitating headaches known as migraines, 2/3 are women. As a high percentage of these sufferers fail to find relief from the standard medical treatments, the discovery that Botox effectively treated migraines led to the identification of nerve compression as being ... http://www.migraine-facts.co.uk/2012/01/botox-nerve-compression-and-migraine/ If you have to rush your child to hospital with acute headaches the goal is to determine whether the pain is being caused by a potentially serious neurological condition. One of the options is to run a CT, or computed tomography, scan to help with the diagnosis. The problem is ... http://www.migraine-facts.co.uk/2012/01/ct-scans-and-child-headache/ Most of us aren't aware that the intensity with which you clench your jaw through the night can lead to both chronic headaches and persistent migraines. This is the principle upon which the newest, and possibly only, preventative weapon in the continuing war against tensions and migraine headaches; a tiny ... http://www.migraine-facts.co.uk/2012/01/nociceptive-trigeminal-inhibition-tension-suppression-system/ An American neurologist has developed a headache diary app called iHeadache which is available for the Blackberry, the iPhone, iPad and Ipod touch. Dr Elliot Shevel is the chairman in the South African Headache Society and he says that keeping a diary is vital is determining what is triggering off ... http://www.migraine-facts.co.uk/2012/01/headache-diary-for-your-iphone-or-blackberry/ The month long fasting known as Ramadan is the annual Muslim religious practice that leads up to Hari Raya Puasa celebration. During this month long period, Muslims must abstain from eating, drinking and smoking between the hours of sunrise and sunset for either 29 or 30 days. Many of those fasting ... http://www.migraine-facts.co.uk/2012/01/ramadan-has-a-strong-connection-to-headaches/ The latest research into headaches in children from the World Health Organisation has shown that 80% of these headaches are caused by muscle tension, which has been triggered by stress.  For many of these children, starting a new school year isn't just about meeting new teachers and making new friends, ... http://www.migraine-facts.co.uk/2012/01/muscle-tension-causes-80-of-headaches/