BACKGROUND Recurrent headaches are disqualifying for military service if they are of sufficient severity or frequency to interfere with normal function in the past 3 years. The occupational impact of waiving this standard is evaluated. METHODS A retrospective cohort study of enlistees from January 1, 1995, through December 31, 2000, was performed. Enlistees with a waiver for recurrent headach...

OBJECTIVES Primary headaches are often seen by Clinicians on duty at Emergency Services. We have investigated the treatment of such patients by 43 medical doctors who have been working at Emergency Services in the city of Santos and surrounding towns for many years. RESULTS We confirmed the high prevalence of primary headaches in Emergency Services. There seem to be diagnosis difficulties con...

CLINICAL HISTORY This 47-year-old woman has a history of migraine since aged 4 years. Until 1 year ago, the headaches occurred one to two times per week, lasted all day, resulted in functional incapacity, and were not relieved by over-the-counter medications or nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs. About 10 years ago, she was taking Fiorinal #3 but stopped when she developed rebound headaches. S...

Recent studies on Multiple Sclerosis (MS) pathology mention the involvement of "tertiary B cell follicles" in MS pathogenesis. This inflammatory process, which occurs with interindividually great variance, might be a link between MS pathology and headaches. The aim of this study was to detect the prevalence of headaches and of subtypes of headaches (migraine, cluster, tension-type headache [TTH...

OBJECTIVES Headache is a common cause of medical consultations. We aim to analyze demographic characteristics of first two thousand patients in our register, and the incidence of their different headaches coded according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders, ii edition (ICHD-II). PATIENTS AND METHODS On January 2008 a headache outpatient clinic was established in a tertia...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of prophylactic headache treatment in children and adolescents. DATA SOURCES PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Database of Clinical Trials, and bibliography of retrieved articles through August 11, 2012. STUDY SELECTION Randomized trials of headache treatment among children and adolescents (<18 years old). INTERVENTION Any placebo-controlled trial or comparisons ...

This is the case of a 7-year-old girl with a history of migraine headaches who presented with a head tilt to the left and worsening headaches. Papilloedema was found on ophthlamoscopy. She had an intermittent history of migraine-type headaches for the past year. Oral naproxen 375mg twice daily provided some relief of the headaches initially but they slowly worsened and head tilt appeared. A med...

From the Department of Radiology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. Corresponding author: William J. Bufkin, MD, Department of Radiology, Baylor University Medical Center, 3500 Gaston Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75246. Figure 3. Unenhanced axial computed tomography (CT) image demonstrates a small calcified nodule (arrow) at the corticomedullary junction in the right frontal lobe. moved...

In 1973, at the suggestion of a friend, and apparently based on the advice of a traditional Welsh healer, a Welsh woman Mrs Anne Jenkins tried taking three fresh leaves of feverfew iJanacetum parthenium) each day in an attempt to rid herself of severe and recurrent migraines. After ten months, Mrs Jenkins' headaches had vanished and did not return as long as she kept taking feverfew. Her enthus...