Current press information on migraine and headache research, migraine and headache diagnostics, migraine and headache therapy
Neuroscientific findings by 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 presented by Ulm brain researcher Professor [...]
“30 Years of the DGS – and Still Far From Finished” Interview with Dr. Gerhard HH Müller-Schwefe, President of the German Society for Pain Medicine (DGS) Dr. Müller-Schwefe, the DGS, which has been around for 30 [...]
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, [...]
Approximately half of all primary school children experience headaches and migraines at school, at home, or during leisure time. Six percent of them have headaches once a week or more frequently. Without early intervention, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1. Try to reduce the stress in your life. Migraines are a neurological condition and are not caused by a stressful life. While excessive stress can certainly be a trigger, it is never the cause of migraines. [...]
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 [...]
Approximately 50% of patients with more than 15 headache days per month for at least 3 months have, in addition to their original primary headache disorder, medication overuse headache as a contributing factor to the increasing frequency of headache days per month [...]
The International Headache Society (IHS) has awarded Prof. Hartmut Göbel of 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 [...]
The online community www.headbook.me facilitates in-depth networking and the exchange of experiences on all topics related to migraines and headaches. In the internet age, active self-help and independent information gathering are becoming increasingly important. Our healthcare system allows [...]
Our nationally and internationally popular migraine app for iPhone and iPad was updated at the beginning of the year to reflect the new iOS 7 and is now also available in an iPad version. [...]
On December 13, 2013, the U.S. 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 [...]
Wedding photo of Cosima and Richard Wagner. The interview about the Wagner-BMJ article with Liliane Jolitz from the Lübecker Nachrichten. Lübecker Nachrichten: As a migraine expert, you are known far beyond Germany. Apparently [...]
Research: "Compulsive plague! Pain without end!" How Richard Wagner played out his Migraine in the Opera Siegfried Kiel/London, December 13, 2013. In a paper published in the Christmas edition of the British [...]
Kiel/London, December 12, 2013. Chronic migraine was the composer Richard Wagner's "main torment" of his life. Researchers at the Kiel Pain Clinic have now been able to demonstrate for the first time that his experience is reflected in his most famous works [...]
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Göbel: Patients and doctors have chosen the best physicians nationwide in the FOCUS physician ranking. Prof. Dr. med. Hartmut Göbel, head physician of the Kiel Pain Clinic, is among the top doctors according to the editors of Focus [...]
Recognized by the Schleswig-Holstein Medical Association with 10 continuing education credits, Category A: Diagnosis and therapy of chronic migraine and headache disorders. A continuing education event of the nationwide headache treatment network and the Migraine and Headache Center at the Kiel Pain Clinic. Time: [...]
The Federal Council has before it a decision regarding the amendment of the prescription drug regulations for the migraine medications sumatriptan and zolmitriptan. A decision on this is to be made at the Federal Council meeting on November 8, 2013. The lead Health Committee of the [...]
Sumatriptan (nasal and oral) and zolmitriptan (oral) are to be partially removed from prescription-only status as of October 1, 2013. This is planned by the 15th Ordinance Amending the Prescription Drug Ordinance of the Federal Ministry of Health and the Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection. Previously, naratriptan [...]
