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Does Changing Migraine Therapy Cause More Harm Than Good?


 

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“On average, switching from one triptan to another or adding a second triptan is not helpful,” commented Dr. Lipton. “That is not to say that when we switch individual patients, there isn’t a benefit to that, or that optimized algorithms for choosing treatments have no effect on patient care.”


—Erik Greb

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