New Drugs Might Prevent Migraines Before They Start

U.S. News & World Report via Health Day News - Quotes Thomas Ward, professor of neurology, on recent research that is closing in on a new class of drugs that can prevent chronic migraines by interrupting the chain of events thought to create the headaches. "It's very exciting, because this would be a form of prevention that might not have a lot of side effects and would be highly effective for people who have not had good treatment," says Ward. "The hope is these drugs will be clean, reduce the number of headaches people get, and won't carry a lot of baggage." Read more...