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How to get better treatment for migraines

By Deborah Kotz

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 25, 2012

Most people who suffer regularly from debilitating migraine headaches don’t get the appropriate treatment to prevent them, according to guidelines issued earlier this week from the American Academy of Neurology. And a disappointing study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that injections of Botulinum toxin A, or Botox, had smaller-than-expected benefits for those with chronic, near-daily headaches, working only modestly better than a placebo.

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