News tagged with cluster headache

Treating cluster headaches with high-flow oxygen appears effective

Patients with a cluster headache, which is characterized by bouts of excruciating pain usually near the eye or temple, were more likely to report being pain-free within 15 minutes of treatment with high-flow oxygen than patients ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Common migraine pain condition also prevalent in cluster headache

A pain condition common in people with migraines also has a high prevalence in patients with cluster headache, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Jefferson Headache Center at Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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New migraine clinical trial guidelines

Experts from the International Headache Society (IHS) have developed new recommendations for conduct of acute and preventive migraine clinical trials. The third edition of Migraine Clinical Trials Guidelines is now available ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

fMRI brain imaging illuminates magic mushrooms' psychedelic effects

Brain scans of people under the influence of the psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have given scientists the most detailed picture to date of how psychedelic drugs work. The findings of two studies being ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify new class of antimalarial compounds

An international team led by scientists from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) and The Scripps Research Institute has discovered a family of chemical compounds that could lead ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Looking for a link between seizures and migraine after traumatic brain injury in soldiers

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects many Americans: high school athletes, drivers and passengers in motor vehicle accidents, and victims of domestic violence, to name a few. Some of the most striking effects of brain injury ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The future of drugs is all in the family

In a first-ever comprehensive study of the species origins of nature-derived drugs, it is shown that drug-producing species are concentrated and clustered in a limited number of families, refuting the conventional view that ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

World Health Organization releases latest Dengue Bulletin

The ten studies in this special issue document the substantial and growing burden of dengue in the Americas, Africa and Asia, and the burden of a chikungunya outbreak in India.

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created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breakthroughs help brain surgeons remove nearly all of a tumor, raise survival rates

Donna Vinson suddenly felt she "couldn't think well." She was far off from choosing the right words, even pointing to a garbage can once as she asked a family member to pass the potatoes.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The digital side of biology

Revolutions in science come in waves. One of the epoch-making events in modern biology came in 1995 when J. Craig Venter, an American biologist, decoded the whole genome of the Haemohilus influenzae bacterium ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Beyond the bullet: Surviving a shot to the head carries host of challenges

The spectral images, reproduced in neurosurgery journals and textbooks, could be captioned "Beauty and the Beast." Captured by X-ray and CT scan, the human brain is pierced by a bullet, nail, pool cue or chunk of razor-sharp ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Invasive plants increase the risk of tick-borne disease in suburbs

(PhysOrg.com) -- “You don't have to go out into the woods anymore,” says tick expert Brian F. Allan, PhD, who just completed a postdoctoral appointment at Washington University in St. Louis. “The ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast


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