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Stress Reduction for Headaches

by Dr David Rakel

Everyone has stress in her/his life.

Stress is both good and bad. You need enough stress to keep you active, interested, and excited about your life. Too much stress, without relief, can be harmful to body, mind, and spirit.

Magnesium for Migraine Prevention

by Dr. Alexander Mauskop

Magnesium is effective in preventing migraine headaches, according to a new study published in the journal Magnesium Research.

The researchers found that patients treated with magnesium, compared to those treated with placebo, had fewer migraine attacks and the attacks were milder.

Vitamin D and Migraine Headaches

by Dr. Alexander Mauskop

Vitamin D deficiency has become a very popular topic in lay and professional literature, and deservedly so.

Vitamin D is important not only for bone health, but for normal functioning of many organs. Its deficiency appears to be much more common than it was previously suspected.

Food Colorings and Migraine Headaches

by Dr. Alexander Mauskop

A study published in the British medical journal Lancet reports on the effect of food colorings in children.

This study found that food colorings cause symptoms of attention deficit disorder in young children.

Overreliance on Drugs?

by Dr. Alexander Mauskop

A recent survey by Beatrice Golomb and her colleagues which was reported by Reuters Health discovered that when patients reported adverse reactions to drugs their doctors routinely denied that the drug was responsible for these side effects.

To a great extent this is due to doctor’s lack of knowledge about potential side effects, but I suspect it is also because doctors have an unreasonable degree of reliance and faith in drugs.

Communication Barrier in Migraine Treatment

We are excited to kick off a series of articles today by Alexander Mauskop MD, FAAN, a professor of neurology and leading figure in headache writing and research. Dr. Mauskop is the author of Migraine and Headache (Oxford American Pain Library).

Dr. Mauskop has given lectures at the medical schools of Cornell, Harvard, and Columbia, as well as the Mayo Clinic, and we are delighted to have him share his wisdom here on Pill Advised.