New Breakthrough Migraine Therapy 'Reduces Attacks by Half'

The World Health Organization has classified headaches as a major health disorder and has rated migraines amongst the top 20 most disabling lifetime conditions. Recently however, a new therapy has been hailed as a breakthrough in this problem. Sputnik spoke with Migraine Action, a UK based charity organization about this treatment.

Two clinical trials have shown that a new approach to preventing migraines cuts the number and severity of attacks as the treatment uses antibodies to change the activity of chemicals in the brain.

"This new therapy provides people with hope, as there are many people affected by migraines that have tried all the medications currently available but nothing seems to help them. These new groups of drugs are made specifically to help prevent migraines as they are designed to block the CGRP receptor, which plays a critical role in migraine...