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For a serious neurological disease that causes debilitating headaches and other symptoms and leaves patients incapacitated for days, migraine often gets overlooked or goes undetected and untreated. While most patients brush the symptoms aside as ‘just’ a headache, a migraine is actually much more than just a bad headache. Triggered by light, sound or smell among other things, a migraine can lead to severe headache, nausea, visual disturbances and even temporary loss of vision in some patients. Often genetic, the condition can affect all ages, and severe cases can impair a person’s ability to work or study.
In a bid to shed more light on migraine symptoms, triggers, treatments, social impact and common misconceptions, Gulf News, in partnership with pharmaceutical giant Novartis, is launching a series of podcasts on the condition. Across six episodes, the podcast series will feature leading neurologists in conversation with long-time migraine sufferers, discussing various related
In the final episode of Gulf News and Novartis’ five-part vodcast series on multiple sclerosis, MS Talks – Keep Moving Forward, host Muna Al Harbi looks at how patients can successfully manage the disease and have a happy and productive life.
She speaks to expert guest Dr Bassem Yamout, who is currently the principal investigator on several ongoing international MS research trials. They discuss the current approaches to tackling MS and how over the last 25 years treatments have advanced so much that it s now the most rapidly evolving therapeutic area in all of neurology – even faster than Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.