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Could biofeedback help your migraines?

Over the past decade, medications known as CGRP inhibitors have helped prevent and treat migraine headaches in many people. But what happens when these drugs don’t work, or when someone has to stop taking them due to side effects? A nondrug therapy called biofeedback could play a role.

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Stat of the Week

As many as one in 22 American adults have episodes of atrial fibrillation, or afib, a rapid, chaotic heart rhythm that raises risk for stroke. Fluttering or thumping in the chest and breathlessness, dizziness, confusion, and fatigue are among its key symptoms. If untreated, episodes occur more often and last longer, possibly leading to other serious health problems.

While daily medications are often used to treat afib, advances in tools and imaging techniques now make a procedure known as pulsed catheter ablation available as a first-line treatment for many people.

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