A New Mechanism of Medication-Overuse Headache

December 04, 2019

Pain Research Forum, 4 December 2019

It is a cruel irony that the same drugs used to treat migraine headache can themselves cause headache. But the underlying causes of this phenomenon, known as medication-overuse headache (MOH), are unclear. A recent mouse study identifies a new mechanism responsible for MOH, focusing on a familiar suspect in pain. Read more.

Lincoln Tracy is a researcher and freelance writer based in Melbourne, Australia.