Red wine and headaches in the WSJ

January 3, 2019

Red wine is a common trigger for migraines, although we still don’t know the cause or why red wine is worse than white. I was just interviewed for this article in the WSJ along with my friend Mo Levin of the UCSF headache clinic.

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Alexander Mauskop, MD
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Insights from Dr. Alexander Mauskop on headaches and migraines
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