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Levadex Meets Phase 3 Endpoints

Posted in News, Treatments, tagged , , , , on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Levadex, MAP Pharmaceuticals’  orally inhaled medication for acute migraine, has met all 4 of the Phase 3 endpoints. In a news release issued on May 26, 2009 MAP Pharmaceuticals stated,
Patients taking LEVADEX therapy (formerly referred to as MAP0004) had statistically significant improvement at two hours compared to patients on placebo for each of the primary [...]

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Life, Interrupted

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , on April 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Random news stories regarding Migraine

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The Tragic Case of Diane Levine

Posted in Treatments, side effects, tagged , , , , on March 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »

This Chicago Tribune story came in my email this morning. In 2000, Diane Levine, who is a musician, was given Demerol and Phenergan for a migraine. Tragically for her, the physician’s assistant injected the Phenergan into an artery instead of a vein. Levine subsequently developed gangrene and had her right forearm amputated. Not suprisingly, she [...]

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Headache on the Hill

Posted in educating others, tagged , , , , on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The second  Headache on the Hill will be held in Washington, DC next Monday and Tuesday, February 23rd and 24th. The long-term goal of AHDA is to have the National Institutes of Health increase its spending for research for Migraine and other headache disorders. This event’s purpose is
to educate members of Congress and their staff [...]

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Migraine and Drug Dependence

Posted in Treatments, side effects, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »

 

This post is in response to Arabella’s post regarding the difference between medication overuse headache (MOH) and addiction. We are both responding to redOrbit’s article Migraine Meds Can Become Addictive  (BTW, the original AP article is better. Thanks, Parin). What followed was not on addiction, but on medication overuse headaches (MOH) or rebound headaches. These [...]

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