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Article: Effective migraine prophylaxis remains elusive.(Clinical Rounds)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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WASHINGTON -- Newer drugs aren't any better for migraine prophylaxis than are older treatments--and they may be worse choices for many patients when cost is a factor.
"There's no proof of increased efficacy with the newer drugs," said Dr. Gretchen E. Tietjen, chair of the department of neurology at the University of Toledo (Ohio).
Topiramate (Topamax), a newer drug, has been compared with several other drugs in head-to-head, double-blind studies, including divalproex sodium, nadolol, propranolol, and amitriptyline, she said at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians. "'In these head-to-head studies, there was similar efficacy."
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Article: TIETJEN.(Obit)(Obituary)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);
April 29, 2008 ;
435 words
...Margaret McCullagh Tietjen April 26, 2008 Margaret McCullagh Tietjen, 85, formerly of Altmar, died Saturday in Seffner ... from Altmar Union School in 1940. She married Kenneth Tietjen in August 1981; he died November 17, 1996. She was ...
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