The NeurologyLive® headache and migraine clinical focus page offers information, podcasts, videos, and news and interviews with physicians related to the care of patients with headache disorders such as chronic and episodic migraine, cluster headache, tension-type headache, and more. The page includes updates on the latest FDA actions, clinical guidelines, and study and clinical trial findings.
August 29th 2025
Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending August 29, 2025.
Addressing the Challenges in Determining Pediatric Brain Death
February 27th 2019The pediatric critical care medicine attending physician in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia spoke about how physicians can better address brain death in pediatric patients.
FDA Issues Final Policy Framework for RMAT Designated Therapies
February 18th 2019The framework consists of 2 documents that expand on the agency’s plans for its risk-based approach for describing drugs, devices, and biologics, including those designated as regenerative medicine advanced therapies.
Neuromodulation and Stimulation Devices Offer Additional Options to Patients With Headache Disorders
February 18th 2019As many patients with migraine and other disorders are resistant to currently available options, this increase in device development has brought forward additional path­ways to treatment for patients.
BHV-3500 Meets Target Exposures for Migraine, Will Continue to Phase 2 Trial
February 5th 2019The phase 2 trial for the CGRP receptor agonist is planned for Q2 of 2019 after the intranasal treatment met its target therapeutic exposures in phase 1. Biohaven submitted an IND to the FDA in September 2018.
ADAM Zolmitriptan Shows Efficacy in Acute Treatment of Difficult-to-Treat Migraines
February 1st 2019The acute administration of adhesive dermally applied microarray zolmitriptan (Qytripta, Zosano Pharma) showed an almost uniform benefit across subgroups of patients with severe pain, delayed treatment, nausea, and who were awakening with headache.
For Patients With Migraine, Are CGRP Inhibitors Worth the Cost?
January 19th 2019A recent review of the ICER report on calcitonin gene-related peptide inhibitor monoclonal antibodies has suggested that due to their cost and comparative benefit to available treatments, they should be reserved as second-line treatments.
AHS Releases Position Statement on CGRP Inhibition Integration Into Clinical Practice
January 14th 2019The guidance provided the society’s recommendations for the use of the newly approved calcitonin gene-related peptide monoclonal antibodies for the prevention of migraine, among other guidance points.