Items Tagged ‘headache’

July 28, 2021

Opioids provide low evidence of pain relief for migraine, large Mayo analysis finds

By Adam Harringa

Evidence that opioids provide pain relief for migraine headaches is low or insufficient, a large Mayo Clinic meta-analysis published recently in JAMA has found. However, some newer therapies, along with established migraine treatments, were associated with moderate to high evidence of pain relief. The meta-analysis – which combined results from multiple scientific studies – included […]

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Tags: Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, headache, Juliana VanderPluym, migraine, opioids, Zhen Wang