Clinical pearls for frontline PCPsA 40-year-old man on today’s schedule has a chief complaint of “excruciating headaches.” ...

June is National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month. Now is the time to learn about the headaches you can experience, the causes of migraines and overall treatment options. “Headache” describes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Approximately one in 1,000 people have cluster headaches. Cluster headaches are nicknamed “suicide headaches” ...

Women with cluster headache (CH) have more severe symptoms and longer headache bouts than men, and they are more likely to have a chronic subtype of the disorder, new research shows. The study, which ...

When diagnosing cluster headaches, it is important to first rule out a secondary cause of the disorder, then to distinguish cluster headaches from other primary headaches and facial pain, and lastly, ...

They arrive without warning and can leave people pacing, rocking, or clutching their heads in agony. Doctors call them cluster headaches, considered the most painful type of headache. According to the ...

When analyzing inflammatory markers in blood and cerebrospinal fluid, researchers at Karolinska Institutet found signs of inflammation in tissue from patients with cluster headache, specifically in ...

Q: I get crushing headaches every fall, which I've always assumed are part of having allergies. But a specialist at our local medical center diagnosed me with cluster headaches. She says oxygen is a ...

Headaches are one of the most common medical conditions, with 96% of people having at least one in their lifetime, according to Cleveland Clinic. About 40% of people globally experience what are known ...

Oxygen therapy can help treat cluster headaches. However, current research does not support its use for migraine and other headache types. Oxygen therapy involves breathing in air that contains 100% ...

Headaches are quite normal in daily life But what happens when the headache that comes to bother you doesn’t feel like the usual one A neurologist answers ...

In a paper published in the May issue of JAMA, M. S. Robbins, of Weill Cornell Medical College, reviews the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of primary headaches. In a previous post, I discussed ...