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Injection Migraine Medicine
Treatment Approaches
Migraine treatment involves both treating acute attacks when they occur and developing preventive strategies for reducing the frequency and severity of attacks.
Treating Migraine Attacks
Many effective headache remedies are available for treating a migraine attack. Still, many patients are treated with unapproved drugs, including opoids and barbiturates that can be potentially addictive or dangerous.
The main types of medications for treating a migraine attack are:
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Drugmakers team up on needle-free migraine injection
Two drugmakers--Bespak and Zogenix--are teaming up to make a needle-free injectable migraine treatment. The new device will allow patients to fire a... Read more »
Needle-Free Sumatriptan Injection for Migraines and Cluster He...
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Migraine
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Headache - migraine Treatment There is no specific cure for migraine headaches. The goal is to prevent symptoms by avoiding or changing... Read more »
Cluster headaches
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Histamine headache; Headache - histamine; Migrainous neuralgia; Headache - clusterTreatmentTreatment does not cure cluster headaches. The goal of... Read more »
Migraine Myths Debunked?
Tuesdays New York Times article Scientists Cast Misery of Migraine in a New Light highlights research that indicates that much of what we think... Read more »
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