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New and Interesting: Timolol Eyedrops to Treat Migraine Headaches

Background: Acute migraine headaches are a common presentation to emergency departments.  Treatment can be challenging: multiple medications are often required and allergies can limit options. Oral timolol maleate is approved by the FDA for migraine prophylaxis but is not typically …

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Neurology

Adjunctive Pain Management of Renal Colic and Migraines

Background: Renal colic and migraine headaches are common emergency department presentations.  There are a wide range of medications available to treat pain from these disorders including opioids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Opioids have two major issues: dependency and side effects …

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NeurologyRenal and Genitourinary

Rimegepant and Inflammatory Neuropeptide Antagonism in Migraine

Background: Migraine is a chronic neurologic disease characterized by attacks of throbbing, often unilateral headache that are exacerbated by physical activity and associated with photophobia, phonophobia, nausea, vomiting, and, in many patients, cutaneous allodynia. Migraine is very common, and the burden …

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Neurology

Milk of Amnesia (Propofol) for Pediatric Migraines?

Background: There are several classes of medications available to treat pediatric migraines and because of this many providers have different combinations that they like to use.  Typically, NSAIDs, anticholinergics, and dopamine antagonists are used with varying degrees of success.  There …

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Neurology

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