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Migraine sufferers more prone to hangover headache

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Migraine sufferers, beware. You may be more prone to an alcohol-induced headache after a night of drinking, according to researchers from the Jefferson Headache Center. The research will be presented at Neuroscience 2009, ...


Link between migraines and reduced breast cancer risk confirmed in follow-up study

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The relationship between migraine headaches in women and a significant reduction in breast cancer risk has been confirmed in a follow-on study to landmark research published last year and conducted by scientists at Fred Hutchinson ...


Smoking more than 5 cigarettes a day provokes migraine attacks

Smoking more than 5 cigarettes a day provokes migraine attacks

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Tobacco acts as a precipitating factor for headaches, specifically migraines. This is indicated in a study which shows that smokers have more migraine attacks and that smoking more than five cigarettes a day ...


US astronaut John Grunsfeld performing a spacewalk

'Space headaches' come out of the blue

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Researchers are calling for space headache to be established as a new secondary disorder after carrying out a study of 17 astronauts, published in the June issue of Cephalalgia.


Researchers look at effects of weather, air pollution on headaches

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Although large numbers of headache sufferers, particularly individuals who struggle with migraines, attribute their pain to the weather, there has been little scientific evidence to back up their assertions. Now, a study ...


Army personnel show increased risk for migraine

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Two new studies show that migraine headaches are very common among U.S. military personnel, yet the condition is frequently underdiagnosed. The studies, appearing in Headache, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Headac ...


Oxygen therapy might ease pain of migraine, cluster headaches

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Two types of oxygen therapy could offer some relief to adults who suffer from disabling migraine and cluster headaches, according to a new research review from Australia.