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Mary Franklin Picks 3 With The NHF

Introducing “Pick 3 With The NHF”, an interview series where we will be asking three questions of patient advocates, healthcare providers, supporters, and people living with migraine disease and headache disorders. Mary Franklin was the Executive Director of the National…

Rachel’s Invisible Pain

I decided to share “My Migraine Story” on my 44th birthday because far too many people suffer from the invisible pain of migraines and we need to share our stories so that others can understand our experiences.

New and Emerging Migraine Therapies, Pt. 1

January 2020, Episode 43: Dr. Timothy Smith and Dr. Lindsay Weitzel discuss new and emerging medications for migraine disease.

Hormones and Migraines: Everything You Need to Know

Migraine occurs more often in women than in men. Although migraine headaches are equally common in young girls and boys, the number of girls affected increases sharply after the onset of menstruation. It seems clear that certain hormonal changes that…

Chronic Migraine

Chronic migraine best characterizes those patients with a history of migraine who experience headache more than half the time. This condition was previously called Transformed Migraine. However, transformation requires that the sufferer recall precisely how their headaches have changed over…

Coexisting Migraine and Tension-Type Headaches

Some patients will describe a daily, chronic tension-type headache as well as a recurrent hard or “sick” migraine-like headache. This combination of tension-type and migraine headaches, previously known as the mixed headache syndrome, is now identified as coexisting migraine and…

Chronic Daily Headache

Chronic daily headache (CDH) refers to a broad range of headache disorders occurring greater than 15 days a month — in many cases daily — for a period of at least 3 months. The primary variety of chronic daily headache…