As someone who has been wearing prescription eyeglasses since middle school, I’m all too familiar with the annoying phenomenon of getting a headache from new glasses. Every time my prescription changes, it comes with a few days of a little discomfort and the lingering sense that I’ve been traveling around the world with blurry vision.… Read More: Headache From New Glasses? Here’s What You Should Know –… »
PHILADELPHIA — Headache treatment has come a long way to reach the current system of evidence-based guidelines, according to a presentation at the American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting. Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, FAHS, of the Jefferson Headache Center, described some of the earliest recorded treatments for headache, including an ancient Egyptian method that called… Read More: Headache treatment: The long journey to evidence-based guidelines – Healio »
Top: Normal distribution of TRESK channels (green) in facial pain sensory neurons. Bottom: Absence of channels in the knock-out mouse model. Credit: Guo et al., eNeuro 2019 Defective potassium channels involved in pain detection can increase the chance of developing a headache and could be implicated in migraines, according to research in mice published in… Read More: Defective potassium channels cause headache, not body pain – Medical… »
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Emgality (galcanezumab-gnlm; Lilly) for injection for the treatment of episodic cluster headache in adults. The approval was based on the results from a phase 3 double-blind, placebo-controlled trial that included 106 patients diagnosed with episodic cluster headaches. Patients were randomized to receive either once-monthly Emgality 300mg administered… Read More: Emgality Approved to Treat Episodic Cluster Headache in Adults –… »