Ameer Khalek

In a recent article by Lipton et. al. (Lipton RB, Croop R, Stock EG, et al. Rimegepant, an oral calcitonin Gene–Related peptide receptor antagonist, for migraine. N Engl J Med. 2019;381:142-149), the authors attempted to identify a novel pharmaceutical therapy for patients suffering from migraine…

In 2016, there were a total of 63,979 intentional injury deaths in the United States1. Of these, 37,353 (58%) involved a firearm: 22,938 (36%) were intentional self-harm deaths and 14,415 (23%) were assault-related deaths. Since 1999, firearm violence injury death rates have increased by 17%1.…