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Quick Sniff To Clear Migraine Headaches? (October 1, 2007) -- Relief from the pain, nausea and other awful symptoms of migraine could become just a sniff away, as researchers develop new drugs -- including an inhalable medication -- for a condition that affects ... > full story

Mixing Large Doses Of Common Painkiller And Caffeine May Increase Risk Of Liver Damage (September 28, 2007) -- Consuming large amounts of caffeine while taking acetaminophen, a widely used painkiller, could potentially cause liver damage, according to a preliminary laboratory study. The toxic interaction ... > full story

Migraines: Options To Prevent And Treat The Pounding Pain (September 12, 2007) -- Migraines are more than a bad headache. As nearly 30 million Americans can attest, the throbbing pain of a migraine can be debilitating, lasting from a few hours to several days. The condition can be ... > full story

Depression In Women With Migraine Linked To Childhood Abuse (September 6, 2007) -- Childhood abuse is more common in women with migraine who suffer depression than in women with migraine alone, according to a new study. The study found women with migraine who had major depression ... > full story

Cluster Headaches Effectively Treated With New Nasal Spray (August 29, 2007) -- A nasal spray is safe and effective at rapidly treating cluster headaches, which are considered to be the most painful kind of headache with few treatment options. With cluster headaches, the pain is ... > full story

Drug For Cluster Headaches May Cause Heart Problems (August 20, 2007) -- A drug increasingly used to prevent cluster headaches can cause heart problems, according to a new study. Those taking the drug verapamil for cluster headaches should be closely monitored with ... > full story

Women With Migraines And Visual Symptoms May Have Higher Stroke Risk (August 14, 2007) -- Women who have migraine headaches with visual symptoms (or aura) may be at increased risk for stroke compared to women who do not have migraines, researchers reported in Stroke: Journal of the ... > full story

Why Women Get More Migraines Than Men (August 8, 2007) -- New research suggests that women have a faster trigger than men for activating the waves of brain activity thought to underlie migraines. If the theory is correct, this triggering mechanism may be a ... > full story

First-ever Study Looks At Impact Of Family Income On Prevalence Of Migraine In Adolescents (July 6, 2007) -- Adolescents from low-income families are much more likely to suffer from migraine headaches than teens from wealthier households, according to researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine ... > full story

History Of Migraines Associated With Increased Risk Of Retinopathy (May 15, 2007) -- Middle-aged men and women with a history of migraine and other headaches are more likely to have retinopathy, damage to the retina of the eye which can lead to severe vision problems or blindness, ... > full story

For Iraq Veterans, Migraines May Be Sign Of Other Problems (May 4, 2007) -- Soldiers returning from combat in Iraq who have migraine headaches are more than twice as likely to also have symptoms of post-traumatic stress, depression or anxiety than soldiers who do not have ... > full story

Teens With Migraine At Greater Risk Of Suicide (May 1, 2007) -- Teens who have chronic daily headache, especially those with migraine headaches, are at greater risk for suicide than teens who don't have migraines, according to a new study. Teens with migraine are ... > full story

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Headache -- A headache (medically known as cephalgia) is a condition of mild to severe pain in the head; sometimes neck or upper back pain may also be interpreted as a headache. Headaches have a wide variety ... > full article

Cluster headache -- Cluster headaches are rare, extremely painful and debilitating headaches that occur in groups or clusters. Cluster headache sufferers typically experience severe headaches of a piercing quality near ... > full article

Migraine -- Migraine is a neurologic disease, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling headache. Migraine is the most common type of vascular headache. Migraine headaches are usually ... > full article

Peripheral vision -- Peripheral vision is a part of vision that occurs outside the very center of gaze. There is in actuality a very broad set of non-central points in the field of view that is included in the notion of ... > full article

Neurology -- Neurology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Physicians specializing in the field of neurology are called neurologists and are trained to diagnose, treat, and ... > full article

Hallucination -- A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. Hallucinations may occur in ... > full article

Dominant eye in vision -- Ocular dominance, sometimes called eye dominance or eyedness, is the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the other. It is somewhat analogous to the laterality of right or left handedness, ... > full article

Bruxism -- Bruxism is grinding of the teeth. This is an oral para-functional activity observed in most people to some degree. Bruxism includes clenching and/or grinding of the teeth. Some have incorrectly ... > full article

Head injury -- Head injury is a trauma to the head, that may or may not include injury to the brain. The incidence (number of new cases) of head injury is 300 per 100,000 per year (0.3% of the population), with a ... > full article

Anger management -- The term anger management commonly refers to a system of psychological therapeutic techniques and exercises by which one with excessive or uncontrollable anger can control or reduce the triggers, ... > full article

Your Body's Many Cries for Water
As a result of extensive research into the role of water in the body, the author, a medical doctor, believes that he has found chronic dehydration to be the cause of many conditions including asthma, ... > read more

The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
Dr. John Sarno caused quite a ruckus back in 1990 when he suggested that back pain is all in the head. In his bestselling book, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, he claimed that backaches, ... > read more

Home Safe Home
Fascinating, affordable, helpful tips on how to keep your home safe from toxics by an expert on home safety! Home Safe Home is the ultimate reference of its kind, written by the leading authority on ... > read more

Celiac Disease : A Hidden Epidemic
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that affects nearly one in every hundred people. Unfortunately, 97 percent remain undiagnosed and untreated. They continue to suffer from gastrointestinal ... > read more

How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy!
Your personalized 4-step guide to looking and feeling great from the inside out! A book for anyone who wants to look and feel their best. You are unique! The way we respond to food, exercise and ... > read more

The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition
The first edition of this workbook is regarded as a classic in its field, and was the first book to introduce trigger point therapy to the general public as a self-care tool for alleviating chronic ... > read more

The Stretch Deck: 50 Stretches
Stretching is one of the most effective ways to enhance overall fitness. This easy-to-use tool by the author of the best-selling Yoga Deck addresses key body regions-neck, shoulders, back, legs-in a ... > read more

Loving Someone With Bipolar Disorder
Julie Fast and John Preston have written a ground breaking book for couples who want to prevent manic depressive disorder from hijacking their relationship. Fast, a health writer diagnosed with ... > read more

Modern Cosmology
Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang ... > read more

Healing Back Pain : The Mind-Body Connection
Healing Back Pain promises permanent elimination of back pain without drugs, surgery, or exercise. It should have been titled Understanding TMS Pain, because it discusses one particular cause of back ... > read more

 
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