Hand-held device may prevent migraine

A new portable device that delivers a magnetic pulse to the back of the head could prevent or treat migraines in people susceptible to them.

The device was developed at the Montefiore Headache Center attached to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. Just over two hundred patients from 16 medical centers across the US took part in the three-month trial, with half given a placebo device that looked identical to the real gadget. The patients reported having from one to eight migraines with aura each month before the trial. The patients were told to give themselves two pulses to the back of their heads when they experienced early symptoms of a migraine, and to record their pain levels immediately after the pulses, after 30 minutes, and then again after one, two, 24, and 48 hours.

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