Headache News

Mindfulness-based stress reduction improved disability, quality of life and other measures related to migraine, although it did not reduce frequency more than headache education, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Oral prednisone led to a greater decrease in the number of episodic cluster headaches within the first week of treatment vs. placebo, according to findings from a multicenter trial published in The Lancet Neurology.

Adolescents with migraine who have later school start times have fewer migraines, according to research published in Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain.

Literature on the neurological manifestations of COVID-19 continues to emerge, as does the medical community’s understanding of how COVID-19 impacts the course of underlying neurological conditions like MS and epilepsy.

Noncommunicable neurological disorders resulted in “a large and increasing burden” in the United States, according to a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study from 2017 that was published in JAMA Neurology.

The FDA has expanded the approval for Nerivio, a wearable remote electrical neuromodulation device controlled by a smartphone app, to treat chronic migraine in adults aged 18 years and older.

Any migraine, as well as migraine with aura, demonstrated a strong association with cryptogenic ischemic stroke among adults aged 18 to 49 years, according to the results of a prospective, multicenter case-control study.

In the phase 3 MOMENTUM and INTERCEPT trials, the investigational migraine drug AXS-07 met its coprimary endpoints of pain freedom and freedom from most bothersome symptom at 2 hours compared with placebo.

Functional impairments and symptoms related to migraine caused patients to avoid driving, which negatively affected work productivity, according to findings presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association.

Adults who are gay, lesbian or bisexual, or identify as “mostly heterosexual” were more likely to experience migraine than heterosexual adults, according to research published in JAMA Neurology.