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Current press information on migraine and headache research, migraine and headache diagnostics, migraine and headache therapy

May 1, 2014 May 1, 2014

kidney and painkillers

https://www.youtube.com/embed/VRsFrOT1KXA Only use painkillers for chronic pain under medical supervision. The NDR-Viste article shows the possible effects of uncoordinated pain therapy. Kidney damage, persistent headaches and psychological complications due to misuse of headache medication require adequate follow-up. In specialized [...]

April 26, 2014 April 26, 2014

Medication overuse headache

Approximately 50% of patients with more than 15 headache days per month for at least 3 months have, in addition to the original primary form of headache, medication overuse headache (MÜK) as a causal reason for the increasing frequency of headache days. [...]

April 7, 2014 April 7, 2014

ARD Fact 8.4.: Widespread disease headaches

Migraines and other chronic headaches are the cause of the most common pain problems in humans. In recent years, extensive studies have been carried out on the burden on quality of life, the loss of ability to work, the occurrence of comorbidities and [...]

March 21, 2014 March 21, 2014

Prof. Göbel receives the German Pain Prize 2014

25th German Pain and Palliative Care Day: Professor Dr. Hartmut Göbel awarded with Pain Prize - German Prize for Pain Medicine goes to Kiel Frankfurt March 21, 2014 - For his commitment to the care of migraine and headache patients, the [...]

March 20, 2014 March 20, 2014

Prof. Spitzer: Pain and loneliness

Neuroscientific findings from the Ulm brain researcher Spitzer Frankfurt, March 20, 2014 - When people suffer from pain or loneliness, the same nerve cells are activated in the brain. This is one of the study results that the Ulm brain researcher Professor [...]

March 20, 2014 March 20, 2014

30 years of the German Society for Pain Medicine (DGS)

“30 years of DGS – and still far from reaching our goal” Interview with Dr. med. Gerhard HH Müller-Schwefe, President of the German Society for Pain Medicine eV (DGS) Dr. Müller-Schwefe, the DGS, which has been [...]

March 13, 2014 March 13, 2014

Subject: Migraine, a common ailment, on SWR

Play video: click on image. Wednesday, March 12, 2014, at 8:15 p.m. on SWR Television. Nausea, dizziness, racing headaches: Approximately eight million people in Germany suffer from migraines. "betrifft" will dedicate its Wednesday program to this topic, [...]

March 12, 2014 March 12, 2014

Stop headaches in children

About half of primary school children know headaches and migraines at school, in their parents' house or in their free time. Six percent of them have headaches once a week or more often. Without early help, [...]

March 12, 2014 March 12, 2014

DGS Practice Guideline: Primary Headache Disorders

The DGS Practice Guidelines are a project of the German Society for Pain Medicine (DGS) and the German Pain League (DSL). Their purpose is to develop comprehensive research and analysis of available scientific data, as well as [...]

February 21, 2014 February 21, 2014

Center for Rare Headache Disorders

Among the 363 main headache diagnoses currently classified, in addition to the common conditions of migraine and tension-type headache, are a number of very rare headache disorders. These include, in particular, episodic and chronic cluster headache (CK), which [...]

February 1, 2014 February 1, 2014

Development of medication overuse headache

By far the most common cause of migraine occurring on 15 or more days per month, or of a mixed picture of migraine and tension-type headaches with 15 or more headache days per month, is [...]

January 16, 2014 January 16, 2014

Medication Overuse Headache: 10-20 Rule

Approximately 50% of patients with more than 15 headache days per month for at least 3 months have, in addition to the original primary form of headache, medication overuse headache as a causal reason for the increasing frequency of headache days per month.

January 14, 2014 January 14, 2014

Headache Master School 2013, Tokyo, Japan

The International Headache Society (IHS) has awarded Prof. Hartmut Göbel from the Kiel Pain Clinic the international certificate “Headache Master accredited by the International Headache Society”. The Headache Master program was one of the most significant innovations in 2013 [...]

January 4, 2014 January 4, 2014

Networking and self -help: www.headbook.me

The Internet community www.headbook.me enables a detailed networking and exchange of experiences for all topics about migraine and headaches in the age of the Internet, active self-help and independent information procurement are becoming increasingly important. Our health system leaves it [...]

January 2, 2014 January 2, 2014

Migraine app update 2014 for iPad and iPhone

Our nationally and internationally widely used and popular Migraine app for iPhone and iPad was adapted to the new IOS7 in a current update at the beginning of the year and has now also been developed in a version for the iPad. With [...]

December 15, 2013 December 15, 2013

New FDA approval: magnetic stimulation for migraines

On December 13, 2013, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of a new acute migraine therapy using magnetic stimulation. The procedure is known as “Cerena transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)”. This is the first approval of a medical device, [...]