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November 8, 2023 November 8, 2023

Painkillers: Which medication helps when?

Which remedy helps with which pain? When are side effects likely? Who should be careful? Prof. Dr. Hartmut Göbel from the Kiel Pain Clinic gives tips in the NDR Visite interview. Link to the video: https://www.ndr.de/ Fernsehenen/versanden/visite/Schmerzmittel-Welches-Medikament-hilft-wann,visite23346.html

October 6, 2023 October 6, 2023
  • Migraine: The new video course from the Pharmacy Umschau Academy with Prof. Dr. Hartmut Göbel and Nadja Katzenberger The new video course from the Pharmacy Umschau Academy helps you to gain control of your illness. Discover acute and preventive strategies against your migraines and start enjoying your everyday life again.

Migraine: The new video course from the Pharmacy Umschau Academy

with Prof. Dr. Hartmut Göbel and Nadja Katzenberger Now new: The current video course from the Pharmacy Umschau Academy helps you regain control of the disease. All acute and preventive strategies against migraines [...]

October 5, 2023 October 5, 2023

Triptans, Ditans and Gepante in the acute therapy of migraines

What differences do ditans such as lasmiditan have compared to triptans for the treatment of migraine attacks? Triptans are selective 5-HT1B/D receptor agonists. They inhibit neurogenic inflammation and have a vasoconstricting effect. Due to these vasoconstrictive properties, contraindications are [...]

October 1, 2023 October 1, 2023

New study on hereditary factors of cluster headaches

Cluster headache is a severe primary headache disorder affecting 0.1% of the population and is four times more common in men than women. It is characterized by episodes of extremely distressing, one-sided pain that occur around [...]

September 6, 2023 September 6, 2023

Prof. Dr. Göbel on Headache Day on September 5, 2023:

As a person affected, you shouldn't hide. On the contrary, you should stand up and admit it. Get informed. Migraines are more than just a serious headache. It is a serious neurological disease with severe disabling symptoms such as [...]

August 8, 2023 August 8, 2023

Genetic risk factors for cluster headache discovered

A new genome-wide study from the Kiel Pain Clinic, among others, identifies genetic risk factors for cluster headache for the first time: The aim of the study was to collect data for the first meta-analysis of a genome-wide association study of cluster headache, to identify genetic risk variants [...]

June 26, 2023 June 26, 2023

New study: facial and jaw pain in primary headache disorders

Do you suffer from migraines and/or headaches? Then you are cordially invited to take part in this study. Headaches and migraines are common complaints that can affect the quality of life. Pain in the face and jaw can also occur independently or [...]

May 24, 2023 May 24, 2023

58th Fielmann Academy Colloquium – Headache

  58th Fielmann Academy Colloquium Web Seminar Wednesday, June 14, 2023 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, the non-profit Fielmann Academy Schloss Plön has stood for many years for [...]

May 21, 2023 May 21, 2023

Scientific study: connection between headaches and period pain

Are you female, suffer from headaches and are between your first and last period (between menarche and menopause), i.e. before menopause? Then you are cordially invited to take part in this scientific study. Headaches/migraines and [...]

May 21, 2023 May 21, 2023

Scientific study: Headaches – (Not) an issue for the Bundeswehr?

Are headaches also a relevant problem for soldiers in the Bundeswehr? Findings on this are to be gained in a survey carried out as part of a master's thesis in the master's program Migraine and Headache Medicine by the Clinic for [...]

May 13, 2023 May 13, 2023

Common disease migraine: The forgotten epidemic

Interview by Matthias Jansen Almost 15 percent of Germans suffer from migraines. Professor Hartmut Göbel says what patients should pay attention to and what can help them. The research gives hope. Migraine is one of the diseases that [...]

March 2, 2023 March 2, 2023
  • Kick-off event for the new master's degree program at the University of Kiel Master of Migraine and Headache Medicine

Migraines come into the lecture hall

This course of study is unique in Germany: the “Master of Migraine and Headache Medicine” in Kiel. But why does a single illness require an entire course of study? And what motivates the doctors to return to [...]

February 23, 2023 February 23, 2023

Self-medication with triptans for migraines

Headache disorders can vary in severity. A causal treatment of the primary forms of headache is currently not possible, but various symptomatic therapies are available. These include preventative and acute treatment of headache attacks. [...]

January 31, 2023 January 31, 2023

Living with migraines: “37°” report on ZDF

Birte wants to become a doctor, but migraine attacks prevent her from thinking. Robert fears that the migraines could be a career killer and hides them. The film “My Head Is Bursting. Living with Migraines" from the series "37°" [...]

January 30, 2023 January 30, 2023

10 questions to prevent chronic migraines

1) What are the risk factors for chronic migraines? The central risk factors are reduced quality of life and high levels of suffering caused by migraines. A poor effect of acute medication, overuse of painkillers and triptans as well as comorbidities such as depression, [...]