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Pat Phillips
JAMA contributor

JAMA. 1998;280:1975-1976.

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THE World Headache Alliance (WHA) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy have joined to raise awareness of women's issues in the treatment of migraine and epilepsy, two disorders that have long carried a stigma.

Babill Stray-Pedersen, MD, professor of gynecology at the National Hospital in Oslo, said at a news briefing during the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) conference in Seville, Spain, this fall that, although migraine and epilepsy are not medically related, both are neurological diseases that have important consequences throughout the lives of the women who have them, and both may call for a management approach different from that used with men.

"The hormonal fluctuations occurring at onset of menstruation, during pregnancy, and during menopause as well as the issues surrounding the use of oral contraception and hormone replacement therapy have an important impact on the life and management of patients with migraine and epilepsy," . . . [Full Text of this Article]