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Research suggests that the painful phenomenon of a brain freeze might offer insight on other types of headaches that you may get.
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Does your spouse complain that you snore loudly or gasp in your sleep? Better pay attention — and not just for the purposes of marital harmony.
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About 36 million Americans suffer from migraines, a severe type of headache often accompanied by visual problems, nausea and extreme sensitivity to sound and light. Could a device that zaps the nerves in the forehead help prevent them?
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It's called the placebo effect - the surprising power of the brain to affect the body when we take a pill we think is medication, even though it isn't.
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My grandma swore by her arthritic knee. When it throbbed, she said it meant the weather was about to change. My husband, on the other hand, maintains he can predict rain because the incoming weather front gives him a headache.
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