One of the latest crops currently being grown in increasingly large amounts in the UK is poppies. Papaver somniferum was first planted as a commercial crop in 2002, and since then seas of these white flowers have sprung up across … Continue reading
According to experts as many as eight of the forty-three U.S. presidents that there have been so far are thought to have suffered from a form of migraine. And they haven’t been the commonly overlooked ones either such as Garfield … Continue reading
Bad lighting can be a major problem for migraine sufferers; both during an attack, and as a contributing factor towards the onset of one. Not all light is the same though. Some forms are more troubling for migrainers than others. … Continue reading
Taking cannabis as a means of pain relief is nothing new. As far back as the twenty-eighth century BC people have eaten it in food or smoked it as a form of medication. However, in the UK and in many … Continue reading
Chronic pain currently affects more people than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined. As the numbers suffering from chronic pain have increased, so too have the number of opioid prescriptions given out; the number has tripled in the last fifteen years. … Continue reading
Every year hundreds of research studies use animals in order to test how effective new medications might be when it comes to treating humans. According to the Foundation for Biomedical Research 95% of all the lab animals used in studies … Continue reading
Thousands of migraine sufferers take aspirin to try and relieve their pain. Every year the number of aspirin tablets taken by Americans comes to around 80 million, and that’s not counting non-prescription pain medication, plenty of which also contains aspirin … Continue reading