Doctors should prescribe triptans for migraine patients who aren't receiving relief from over-the-counter (OTC) pain relievers, according to a new clinical guideline from the American College of ...

Triptans have been a go-to acute migraine treatment for decades, and for many people these tried-and-true medications reliably keep full-blown migraine attacks at bay. But that’s not the case for ...

Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol. 2013;6(3):271-288. Triptans are highly effective for short-term treatment of acute migraine attacks. They are effective in MA or MO, but are not intended for use in ...

The majority of adults with migraine seen on a headache service do not benefit from triptans because of lack of effectiveness or side effects, requiring alternate medication strategies. Investigators ...

When you get a migraine attack, you want relief right away. For many people, that relief comes from sumatriptan (Imitrex), the original triptan medication. Despite the development of more triptans and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rimegepant offered superior sustained pain relief, pain freedom and normal function up to 48 hours. Most adverse ...

An underused category of drug appears more effective for managing migraine-related symptoms than newer, costlier medications, according to a sweeping review of clinical trials. Despite being designed ...

A nationwide study from Denmark presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO2026) in Istanbul, Turkey, shows that use of semaglutide (Wegovy) for weight management is associated with a 7 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A retrospective claims analysis included more than 184,000 individuals with migraine who used at least one ...

A study from The BMJ indicates that the newest class of migraine drugs—which includes Pfizer’s Nurtec, AbbVie’s Ubrelvy and Eli Lilly’s Reyvow—is less effective in the acute treatment of migraines ...

Combination therapy is recommended for migraine pain, a new guideline says Doctors should prescribe triptans along with pain killers like NSAIDs or acetaminophen for migraine pain This represents a ...