Archive for August, 2023

#48 Fact: No One Knows What Causes Meniere’s Disease

What’s Meniere’s disease you ask?  Approximately 615,000 people in the United States have Meniere’s Disease.  The condition is named after the French physician Prosper Menière, who in an 1861 article described the main symptoms and was the first to suggest a single disorder for all of the symptoms, in the combined organ of balance and hearing […]

#47 Fact: No One Knows What Causes Migraine Headaches

Does the title of this article sound strange and unlikely or even impossible.  Doctors have been treating migraine headaches for decades with a whole assortment of drugs.  They couldn’t possibly be prescribing all these drugs for migraine headaches, each connected to a long list of undesirable side effects, without knowing the actual cause, could they?  […]