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Soon, pill to beat migraine!

Updated on: 03 June,2011 08:41 AM IST  | 
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A pill to prevent migraine headaches could soon be on the horizon, now that a gene linked to the condition has been discovered

Soon, pill to beat migraine!

A pill to prevent migraine headaches could soon be on the horizon, now that a gene linked to the condition has been discovered.







"We may be moving toward developing about a pill that would block the brain's pain channel that reacts to stimulation and causes pain in migraine," says Dr. Guy A. Rouleau director of the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center and Full Professor in the Department of Medicine of the Universit ufffd de Montr ufffdal
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"Sequencing the gene not only allows us to understand the diseaseu00a0-- it also opens understanding of the pain pathways that trigger migraine pain," he said.
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Dr Allan Purdy, from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, said the discovery of the gene confirmed the long-standing belief that migraine runs in some families.
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The study was presented at the annual scientific meeting of the American Headache Society.

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