by Sue Robbins | May 17, 2015 | Headache Drugs
Scientists are finding that even after depression eases, the risk of stroke can remain high. “We thought that once people’s depressive symptoms got better their stroke risk would go back down to the same as somebody who’d never been depressed,”...
by Sue Robbins | Mar 25, 2013 | Headache Drugs
Cephalgia has published an article discussing the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Survey ranking migraine as the 7th highest specific cause of disability globally (based upon ictal disability, i.e. during migraine attack). This is an important recognition for migraine...
by Dr Robbins | Jun 19, 2012 | Headache Drugs
Results from a three year study recently presented at the Sleep 2012 Conference in Boston indicate that a lack of sleep and higher stroke risk may be connected to one another. Adults who routinely get less than 6 hours of sleep a night are 4 times more likely to...
by Dr Robbins | Jun 4, 2012 | Headache Drugs
Taking data from the largest study to date of the eating habits of postmenopausal women, University of North Carolina researchers compared stroke incidence and the intake of trans-fatty acids among 87,025 women ages 50-79. The study suggests another reason to avoid...
