One class of drugs has already found success in treating the painful, disorienting and common attacks. Excitement is building ...

Talk to your healthcare provider about a referral to a neurologist or another specialist to discuss treatment with migraine ...

Monthly 140 mg erenumab injections are a safe and effective treatment for patients with nonopioid chronic migraine and medication overuse headaches.

It’s not a coincidence that Pfizer, Lilly, Amgen, and AbbVie are all hawking anti-CGRP migraine drugs on their direct-to-consumer portals; these drugs don’t work well enough to be popular ...

For migraine attack prevention, pre-CGRP-era tools still in use today include antidepressants, blood pressure medications, epilepsy drugs and injections of botulinum toxin that numb the pain ...

He said a doctor should be consulted when daily life is impacted by migraines or when frequency is more than once a week, so ...

The key to stopping a migraine episode is early recognition and treatment. Treatments are more likely to be successful when you start them early rather than waiting to see if the symptoms get worse.

The effectiveness of new migraine treatments has been compared to paracetamol in a new study, which suggests drugs developed in the 1990s should be more widely promoted to patients with the ...

There has been noticeable progress in migraine as a disease area in the last few years, with a new class of drugs coming to market that could help prevent debilitating attacks. But the underlying ...

Triptans. Given as pills, shots, or nasal sprays, these medications treat a migraine attack by blocking pain pathways to the brain. They include prescription drugs such as sumatriptan (Imitrex, ...