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Another large study was just released confirming the link between migraine and heart disease.  If you have migraine, what do these studies mean for you?  What can you do about it? The most recent study was a large one, published last month in the online British Medical Journal.  And it focused on mortality.  People who suffer [...]

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A new study suggests another major link between migraine and stroke. The most common single cause of stroke in young adults is something called cervical artery dissection.  This is a problem with one of two major arteries in your neck.  When the lining of one of the arteries becomes torn, the blood can clot and [...]

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There’s been a lot of conversation about last month’s report on a genotype known as methyleneterahydrofolate reductase, or MTHFR 677TT.  If you’ve read any of the reports, you may be as confused as I was at first, but let’s take a closer look. There has been a lot of research into the connection between stroke [...]

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Noninvasive transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, continues to be a topic of conversation in the medical world.  At its 50th conference, the American Headache Society listened to a positive report out of the Ohio State University about the TMS devices. The TMS is transforming from a large device in a specialist’s office to a handheld [...]

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