Listen: Why the Cure for Migraines Could Come From the Parsi Community

Curing migraines has proved to be an arduous task. However, the endogamous Parsi community may provide some vital clues.

Samanth Subramanian

Aug 11 2015

Curing migraines has proved to be an arduous task. However, the endogamous Parsi community may provide some vital clues.

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Migraines – debilitating and agonising, there’s not much that can be done about them. Science is still looking for an effective way to prevent these recurring headaches. The answer to what can help cure migraines may lie in research conducted among the Parsi population. This episode of The Intersection investigates how the homogeneous nature of this community can assist science in finding a solution to migraines.

This is the latest episode of The Intersection, a fortnightly podcast on Audiomatic. For more such podcasts visit audiomatic.in.

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