October 13, 2011 (San Diego, California) — More than 20% of patients with migraine who also have cardiac contraindications continue to take triptans despite warnings, a new study shows. "It is ...

BOSTON — Almost 5 million Americans with episodic migraine (EM) should not be prescribed a triptan, a widely used US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved drug, because of the presence of ...

Triptans are prescription medications that treat migraine attacks after they start. They cannot prevent migraine, but they can ease pain and other symptoms. Triptans calm overactive nerves during an ...

If you're one of the 37 million Americans who get migraine headaches, you know these painful headaches can make you miss work or school and can last several days if they're not treated. In some cases, ...

Triptans are effective medicines used to treat migraine headaches. They significantly reduce pain within two hours for most people. Complete relief is less common, but the likelihood may be greater if ...

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 ...

A study presented at the American Headache Society 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting found that care for patients with migraine has room for improvement, based on the results of a web-based survey of ...

Triptans are a group of drugs targeted at alleviating symptoms of migraine, a severe and often debilitating headache that can affect sight and speech. The triptans available in Australia are: ...

Sumatriptan (as succinate) 4mg/0.5mL, 6mg/0.5mL; for SC inj. Imitrex Injection is supplied as a clear, colorless to pale yellow, sterile, nonpyrogenic solution as either prefilled syringe and/or ...

What percentage of adults with acute migraine pain are eligible for new or emerging treatments? A recent abstract presented at a recent migraine meeting sought to estimate that figure in order to get ...