Recent Posts Tagged With 'stroke'

• Migraine and Migraine-Related News from the AAN: American Academy of Neurology Meeting

  Posted on Friday May 1st, 2009 at 08:58 in stroke, migraine, epilepsy, headache, american academy of neurology, preventive, sumatriptan, imitrex, keppra, levetiracetam, menstrual migraine, relpax

  The AAN: American Academy of Neurology is currently holding their annual meeting. Although the meeting does not until tomorrow, May 2, here's news they have already released.Preventive Drugs Reduce Severity of Menstrual MigraineSEATTLE, April 29 -- ...

• New Hope For Stroke Patients: Reversing Stroke Damage By Jumpstarting Growth Of Nerve Fibers

  Posted on Tuesday August 26th, 2008 at 23:23 in stroke, migraine, headache, brain injury, topics in stroke rehabilitation, anti-nogo-a immunotherapy

  ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2008) — If a stroke patient doesn't get treatment within approximately the first three hours of symptoms, there's not much doctors can do to limit damage to the brain. But now researchers report a technique that potentially ...

• Migraine News: Exercise, Stroke and Heart Risk, Oxygen Therapy

  Posted on Friday August 1st, 2008 at 01:52 in Heart, exercise, genes, relaxation, pain, stroke, migraine, cardiovascular, oxygen, headache, cluster headaches, hyperbaric

  Exercise plus relaxation may lessen migraine pain NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A combination of aerobic exercise and muscle relaxation may help ease migraine pain, a small study suggests. Austrian researchers found that when 15* migraine sufferers a...

• Abnormal Sleep Patterns in Women Linked to Stroke

  Posted on Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 at 20:38 in women, sleep, stroke, migraine, headache

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sleep patterns in middle-aged women can increase their risk for stroke, researchers in the United States have found. The greatest increase in stroke risk -- 70 percent -- was noted among women who slept 9 hours or more per...

• Cymbalta Approved For Fibromyalgia Treatment

  Posted on Monday June 16th, 2008 at 12:05 in anxiety, hypertension, nsaids, stroke, fibromyalgia, migraine, thyroid, cymbalta, liver, medpage today, aspirin, glaucoma

  Cymbalta (Duloxetine) has just been approved to treat Fibromyalgia. Until now, there was only one medication, Lyrica (Pregabalin), approved to treat this illness.In addition to the side effects of Cymbalta, Medpage Today warns:Duloxetine should not ...

• Who is GINA? And What Does She Have To Do With Migraine Disease?

  Posted on Wednesday May 28th, 2008 at 20:31 in insurance, bush, genes, dna, hormones, stroke, genetic, migraine, employer, magnum, gina, headache

  GINA is not a "who" but a "what". GINA is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008. GINA was signed into law by President George W. Bush on May 21, 2008. On April 24, 2008, the Senate passed this bill 95 - 0. It was sent back to the...

• The Pitfalls of Over-The-Counter Pain Medications for Migraine and Other Types of Pain

  Posted on Monday May 26th, 2008 at 01:33 in Heart, fda, stroke, migraine, headache, pharmacist, kidney, liver, ibuprofen, rheumatology, aspirin, nsaid

  Next time you grab that bottle of over-the-counter (OTC) pain medicine for your Migraine, neck, headache, back, knee or other pain make sure you know the facts. Acetaminophen, aspirin, ibuprofen, ketoprofen and naproxen CAN hurt you. Two articles pu...

• May is Stroke Awareness Month - Do You Know the Warning Signs?

  Posted on Friday May 9th, 2008 at 14:25 in stroke, migraine, cdc, magnum, headache, british medical journal, new england journal of medicine, morbidity and mortality weekly report, ninds, national institute of neurological disorders and stroke

  Did you know Migraine increases your Stroke risk? Information regarding the Migraine - Stroke connection can be found in MAGNUM's article Migraines: Myth Vs. Reality:According to the New England Journal of Medicine, "migraine can sometime...

• Migraine at the American Academy of Neurology 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Chicago

  Posted on Monday April 21st, 2008 at 12:58 in Heart, sleep, stroke, migraine, cardiovascular, headache, medications, codeine, american academy of neurology, sumatriptan, oxycodone, butalbital

  Here's a synopsis of Migraine research that was presented at the American Academy of Neurology 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Chicago April 12–19, 2008.Migraine frequency linked with women's risk of cardiovascular diseaseCHICAGO – New researc...