Headache articles from across Nature Portfolio

Results from a phase III trial have set zavegepant as the first intranasal gepant to be approved by the FDA for the acute treatment of migraine. The therapeutic benefits were modest, however, and more work is needed to address unmet treatment needs.

A new paper published in Neuron presents an analysis of mRNA expression in human and mouse trigeminal ganglia at single-nucleus resolution. The resulting resource is thought-provoking and suggests new targets for pain therapies; however, the findings should be interpreted in the context of the available protein data and warrant functional verification.