GammaCore is both effective and cost effective for the treatment of cluster headache

BASKING RIDGE, N.J: A paper in the Journal of Headache and Pain reports that non-invasive stimulation of the vagus nerve (nVNS) is a cost effective therapy for cluster headache. These findings were based on reductions in medication use and improvements in quality of life. The publication also notes that further economic benefits would have been found had reduced visits to clinics been taken into account.

Cluster headache, which is considered one of the worst pain conditions known to medical science, has no approved therapies to prevent its attacks. The publication notes, “the treatment of cluster headache is challenging and many of the commonly used preventive medications are associated with serious safety risks, poor tolerability, and/or marginal efficacy.”

The findings in this publication follow from the successful PREVA trial, which involved 97 patients at ten sites across Europe. The patients were randomized into two arms - one using the gammaCore device plus the standard of care, and the other the standard of care alone. 40% of patients using gammaCore in addition to the standard of care had a ≥50% reduction in the number of weekly cluster headache attacks compared with 8% (p

electroCore LLC, the New Jersey based bioelectric pharma company, is focused on developing non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation therapies (the gammaCore device) for the treatment of multiple conditions in neurology, psychiatry, gastroenterology, and respiratory fields. The company’s initial target is the treatment of primary headaches (migraine and cluster headache), and the associated chronic co-morbidities of gastric motility, psychiatric, sleep, and pain disorders that drive disproportionately large direct and indirect costs within the healthcare system and society.

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