If you are suffering from a persistent headache, don’t be tempted to eat mothballs. In 2011, a 34-year old patient was admitted (unconscious) to a hospital emergency department in Amsterdam “following the ingestion of camphor mothballs for persisting headaches”. Fortunately, after a week or so of intensive clinical care she recovered and was discharged in […]
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More about woodpeckers and headaches
A new study about the dearth of headaches in woodpeckers builds on the research that earned the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in ornithology. [The photo here shows Ivan Schwab, co-winner of that prize, delivering his acceptance speech.] The International Business Times gives its interpretation: How Woodpeckers Avoid Brain Injuries, Research Shows Football players and boxers […]
Headline of the Day: Caffeine/Spinal Tap/Headache
Today’s Headline of the Day is from the Health Behavior News Service: Caffeine Can Ease a Spinal Tap Headache People who suffer headaches after a spinal tap might have a relatively simple way to ease the painful throb: a caffeine tablet…. Researchers led by Xavier Basurto Ona of the Hospital de Figueres in Catalonia, Spain, now […]
Intermittent headache paper
The Retraction Watch blog reports a rare case: Double negatives: Four years later, a journal restores retracted headache paper It might not be a first – although we can’t find another example — but a mental health journal has reinstated an article it retracted four years ago. The retracted retraction notice appears in the August […]