No Proof Drugs Ease Kids' Migraines: Study MONDAY, Jan. 28
(HealthDay News) -- Children and teens who get migraine
headaches suffer in multiple ways, missing school and fun time
with friends while waiting for the debilitating pain to subside.
Now, two new broad reviews of pediatric migraine research point
to a troubling conclusion: There is no clear evidence that drugs
currently used to treat and prevent headaches among adults do
anything much to help similarly afflicted children. The finding
stems from a pediatric migraine-treatment investigation
conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a
pediatric migraine-prevention study out of the Medical College
of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The results of both analyses are
published online Jan. 28 in JAMA Pediatrics. On the migraine
prevention front, Wisconsin's Dr. Jeffrey Jackson, a professor
of medicine, and colleagues reviewed 21 previously conducted
studies (dating up to mid-2012) that included male and female
patients up to age 18. Twenty of the