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Migraine (Research)

Volume 530: debated on Thursday 22 July 1954

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asked the Minister of Health what research is being made into migraine; and what facilities exist within the National Health Service for specialist treatment of this malady.

I understand that a clinical trial of remedies used in migraine is being undertaken at one centre and that headaches of various types are being investigated empirically at a number of others. Facilities for the treatment of migraine by specialists are available in the normal way through the National Health Service.

Is the Minister aware of the increasing interest in this malady and of the difference of opinion expressed by medical writers on the cause and treatment of it? Is be also aware of the work of the migraine clinic at Putney Health Centre? Is there anything there his advisers should study and extend?

I shall be very glad to look at the particular experiment to which the hon. Gentleman refers, but there is a good deal of work going on, mostly under the Medical Research Council.