Taking all the aforementioned issues of headache and the absence of previous reports on headache in student populations of Ethiopia, this study is conducted to assess the prevalence, precipitating factors, and management options of headache among undergraduate medicine, pharmacy, and other health science students of University of Gondar, Ethiopia.
The issue of whether headaches are caused by sinonasal pathologies has caused much debate in the literature.
In the current issue of Journal of Headache and Pain, Tfelt-Hansen [1] suggests that calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor antagonists (CGRP-RA) offer relief to only a fraction of patients.
I was delighted to be invited to comment on the article by Marte Helene Bjørk and co-workers entitled "Interictal quantitative EEG in migraine: a blinded controlled study", published in this issue of The Journal of Headache and Pain [1].
Data extraction Frequency of headaches (number of headache attacks for migraine and number of days with headache for tension-type headaches), intensity of headache, and headache index.
The third theme to emerge focussed on issues about management of headaches.
In this issue of the Journal of Headache and Pain, Yurekli et al. show that sodium valproate (VPA) is effective in the preventive treatment of chronic daily headache (CDH) over placebo [1].
This phenomenon points out the main issue of ONS RCTs in headaches, i.e. the blinding.
Using as key words headache or migraine and depression, we retrieved in medline 47 studies on the issue of the relationship between headache and depression.
In line with this goal, EHF published in 2005 guidelines addressing key issues for organizers of headache schools under the patronage of EHF [2].
