A reporter talks to Dr. Bahman Guyuron, a surgeon in Cleveland who has been performing a procedure that many of his patients say has cured their migraines. For the procedure, Guyuron makes surgical incisions around the circumference of the head to cut muscle and nerve tissue, which stops the migraine signal from reaching the pain center of the brain. Guyuron reports that 92 percent of the patients who have had this procedure have either complete elimination or at least very significant...
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