Combined withdrawal/preventive strategy works best for medication overuse headache

Withdrawal of analgesic medications combined with preventive therapy such as candesartan appears to have a slight edge over other approaches to the management of medication overuse headache, research shows. A Danish study randomised 120 patients with medication overuse headache to...

Withdrawal of analgesic medications combined with preventive therapy such as candesartan appears to have a slight edge over other approaches...

Multiple sclerosis

Bruton kinase inhibitors show promise in MS

Treatment of relapsing remitting MS with BTK inhibition appears to be well tolerated and effective on MRI, the European Association of Neurology (EAN) 2020 Virtual Congress was told. Professor Daniel Reich, from the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and...

Treatment of relapsing remitting MS with BTK inhibition appears to be well tolerated and effective on MRI, the European...

Stroke

Stroke prevention: have surgical procedures lost their edge in carotid stenosis?

The magnitude of benefit from early carotid endarterectomy (CAE) treatment in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis has waned over the last two decades, new research suggests. As a consequence, initial medical therapy may now be a more acceptable treatment strategy for...

The magnitude of benefit from early carotid endarterectomy (CAE) treatment in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis has waned over the...

Pain

PBS puts restrictions on opioid prescribing for non-chronic pain

Revised PBS listings from 1 June will cut the amounts of opioid medication that can be prescribed and ban repeat prescriptions for treatment of non-chronic pain. The changes, introduced as part of measures to tackle increasing pharmaceutical opioid misuse and deaths...

Revised PBS listings from 1 June will cut the amounts of opioid medication that can be prescribed and ban repeat...