Headache

The first 10 websites found during a search of the words “headache” and “migraine” in the international version of Google featured content that required a reading level above what the NIH recommends, according to findings published in Headache.

In this video, Christina L. Szperka, MD, MSCE, director of the Pediatric Headache Program and a pediatric neurologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, discusses migraine care and treatment strategies in the era of COVID-19.

Patients with migraine who switched from Aimovig to Emgality to treat their headaches reported similar improvements between the two treatments, according to research presented at the virtual American Headache Society Annual Meeting.

A host of new migraine-specific therapies were reviewed during this year’s American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting. The treatments that are receiving the most attention are those that target calcitonin gene-related peptide.

Ubrogepant provided pain relief to patients with migraine in a real-world setting, according to preliminary results of an ongoing study evaluating recently approved treatments.

The FDA has granted marketing authorization for the first time for a video game that can improve the attention span in children with ADHD.

Yoga as an add-on therapy was superior to medical therapy alone for adults with migraine, according to a prospective, randomized, open-label trial published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

More than two-thirds of headache medicine clinicians who were surveyed reported altering the standardized protocol for injecting Botox, or onabotulinumtoxinA, for chronic migraine prevention, which raises the question of whether more evidence-based recommendations are needed to help guide treatment decisions, researchers wrote in Headache.

A new advisory board commissioned by the American Headache Society is developing strategies to improve migraine care in primary care offices.

Prolonged use of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic such as N95 masks and protective eyewear was shown to cause or exacerbate headache among health care workers in Singapore.