I was recently interviewed by GP and Medical Educator, Dr Sam Manger, all about the medical treatment of Parkinson’s disease. It is aimed at GPs primarily, but goes through a lot of different aspects of Parkinson’s. I talk about a wide range of aspects of Parkinson’s, from the underlying problem ...

Botox (botulinum toxin) is used for chronic migraine (more than 15 headache days a month) with very good effectiveness. However, there are very few clinical papers on it, which is surprising given my positive experience with Botox including in vestibular migraine. Only a single study talking abou...

A new study of 131 patients, the vast majority women (105) diagnosed with vestibular migraine ( also known as migraine-associated vertigo, MAV), described the typical symptoms of the condition in this patient group. Over half (57.3%) had migraine headaches before the onset of their dizzy symptoms...

I recently watched an excellent episode of the Insight program on SBS discussing exercise. It highlighted both the reasons why – good for your heart and your brain, including reducing the risk of dementia (for which there is excellent scientific backing) – as well as the difficulties of doing so ...