Headache News

Healio Neurology looks back at the most-viewed stories during the past year. Highlights include Biogen’s discontinuation of Aduhelm and a former NIH neuroscience director found guilty of research misconduct.

Headache is one of the most common complaints seen by health care providers. There are various types of primary headache disorders, with the most common being migraine, tension headache and cluster headache.

Younger and middle-aged adults were more often affected by neurologic symptoms of long COVID than their older counterparts, regardless of how severe their initial infection was, data in Annals of Neurology show.

Affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide, migraine is among the most common neurological diseases. During their lives, 43% of women and 18% of men develop migraine.

Pregabalin and topiramate significantly reduced the frequency and intensity of migraines in children and adolescents, especially when combined with vitamin supplements, according to a meta-analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

Migraine is a complex neurological disease that disproportionately affects women during their most productive years.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Although children often suffer from headache, there are few controlled trials that include this unique patient population, leaving clinicians to rely on their experience rather than data, according to a presenter.

Around one-third of former professional football players perceived themselves as having chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to results from a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Neurology.

ORLANDO, Fla. — To properly address headache care gaps in rural areas, clinicians must focus on boosting access, improving health literacy and formulating simple but informative plans for medication usage, according to a speaker.