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Article: Chronic Migraine: Recognition, Prevention, and Treatment.(Clinical report)
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- Hospital Medicine Alert
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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Chronic Migraine: Recognition, Prevention, and Treatment
Abstract & Commentary
By Dara G. Jamieson, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Jamieson reports she is a retained consultant for Boehringer Ingelheim, Merck, and Ortho-McNeil; and is on the speaker's bureau for Boehringer Ingelheim and Merck. This article originally appeared in the October 2008 issue of Neurology Alert. It was edited by Matthew Fink, MD, and M. Flint Beal, MD.
Synopsis: Increased migraine attack frequency and overuse of acute medication, especially barbiturates and opiates, are risk factors for the chronification of migraine, ...