The extensive results included the prevalence of chronic migraine (CM) at about 1%. CM prevalence is highest in middle-aged women and in households with the lowest annual income. Moving to a very useful and practical manuscript, we have

“The 2012 AHS/AAN Guidelines for Prevention of Episodic Migraine: A Summary and Comparison With Other Recent Clinical Practice Guidelines” from Drs. Loder, Burch, and Rizzoli.[9] This article summarizes key guideline recommendations and changes using materials from the American Headache Society/American Academy of Neurology, Canadian Headache Society and European Federation of Neurological Societies’ guidelines. Perhaps the most clinically useful, from my perspective at least, publication (actually a series of 3 articles) was the extensive review by Drs. Kelley and Tepper on rescue therapy for acute migraine.10-12 They performed a MEDLINE search of selleck compound the topic as well as hand searches of headache and emergency medicine journals. They used weighted averages for outcomes and have

generated a very large amount of efficacy data. Two other features within the journal merit special mention. First is Headache Currents, the “journal within the Journal.” Formerly shared by Cephalalgia and Headache, it now appears exclusively MLN2238 in Headache. Dr. David Dodick was the first Editor; subsequently, I was the editor, and now, Dr. Stewart Tepper has taken charge. Until this year, it was 6 issues per year; now, we have 1 in each issue of the main Journal. Topics covered in the past 2 years are Unanswered Questions in Headache (by Drs. Ahn and Brennan), Pediatric Headache, Genetics and Headache, What Happens

to Old Headache Medicines (dihydroergotamine, ergotamine, methysergide, sumatriptan), and Highlights of IHC Berlin and AHS Annual Scientific Meeting MCE公司 2011; and Clinical Review of QTc Prolongation, Torsade de Pointes, Myocardial Ischemia from Coronary Vasospasm; Pathophysiology of Migraine; Thunderclap Headache and RCVS, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Cluster Headache Management, Hemicrania Continua, and Stroke and Headache. Second, I want to remind our readers that Headache is online, with Dr. Todd Schwedt performing the role of the online editor. Featuring an array of ancillary content, the Journal can be accessed online at http://www.headachejournal.org/view/0/index.html. Perhaps the crowning achievement of all the various online efforts Dr. Schwedt and his team have assembled are the virtual issues. Virtual issues are collections of articles on a particular subject, published previously in Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain. The articles highlighted are selected by a guest editor to provide a rapid overview of the activity in a particular aspect of headache medicine. The virtual issues will be updated on a regular basis by the editor but will not be available as a paper publication.