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I appreciated this post on CFLs (no, not the Canadian Football League - Compact Fluorescent Lights) from Somebody Heal Me. I think this is a topic that has snuck up on a lot of us, […]
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I don’t know about you, but I can read medical studies and statistics for hours and never really "get it" until I hear some personal stories. That’s why I appreciated the news article I just read - not for it’s medical data, but for the stories it told.
The story of Jai Kawale is a common […]
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The next time you find yourself with a headache, be thankful you didn’t get it the way Michael did.
Michael Moylan (Florida, USA) woke up at 4:30am with a terrible headache. He thought maybe he had had an aneurysm, or that his wife had elbowed him in the head. He got his wife up, and she […]
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Here’s a new study bound to stir up some discussion. Today’s issue of Neurology reports on a study of adolescents with migraine. As it turns out, children in families with incomes over US$90,000 had 50% fewer migraines than children in families with incomes under US$22,500. Now, that didn’t include children in families that had a […]
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Not long after I posted my lament that I couldn’t find a decent migraine art book, I read this post about a migraine art book from Jackie at Life in the Canadian Desert. I was excited to read it, but I wished it had been posted a little sooner!
Jackie is writing about a […]
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Michael Stevenson, a doctor from Cumbria, England, has been sentenced. Stevenson was charged, and pleaded guilty, to accidentally killing a migraine patient.
It happened like this. Dr Stevenson was a doctor with 25 years of experience behind him. He got a call in January, 2005 from the daughter of Mrs Marjorie Wright. It seemed that her […]
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You might have heard about Pozen’s migraine product, Trexima, which is currently under review in the USA. I know I’ve heard about it - a lot about it. I’ve written about Trexima before, more than once.
Trexima is a combination drug. Its key ingredients are sumatriptan succinate (otherwise known as Imitrex) and naproxen sodium. Both of […]
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