There's good news about abortive treatment of Migraine with aura - without medications. A portable Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) device that is in clinical trials is showing great promise and may be FDA approved and available for use sometime this year.
Study results were presented at the 50th annual scientific meeting of American Headache Society in June. According to Richard B. Lipton, MD, Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and study lead...
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