Discover practical, education-focused podcasts and video discussions on migraine and its modern management.
These episodes of Médecins par passion, produced by Médecins francophones du Canada, are designed as clinical tools for physicians and healthcare professionals in their daily practice.
🎧 Podcasts
🎙️ Episode 1 — Hormonal Migraine and Menstrual Migraine
👩⚕️ Guest: Dr. Vanessa Doyle, Neurologist
🎤 Hosted by: Dr. Marjorie Pomerleau
In this episode, the discussion focuses on hormonal migraine, with a particular emphasis on menstrual migraine.
The conversation explores how menstrual migraine is defined, how it differs from other migraine types, and how to distinguish pure menstrual migraine from migraine associated with menstruation. Triggers, clinical characteristics and symptom patterns are reviewed, followed by a practical overview of acute treatment strategies and long-term preventive options for affected patients.
🎙️ Episode 2 — Acute Migraine Treatment
👩⚕️ Guest: Dr. Vanessa Doyle, Neurologist
🎤 Hosted by: Dr. Marjorie Pomerleau
This episode reviews the goals of acute migraine management: rapid pain relief, restoration of function and minimization of side effects. Using the Canadian Headache Society’s colour-coded framework (green, yellow and red light), the discussion addresses how to tailor therapies according to attack severity. The episode also covers tools like the MTOQ-6 to assess treatment effectiveness, the role of gepants versus triptans, and practical considerations related to coverage and access for Canadian patients.
🎙️ Episode 3 — Migraine From Age 7 to 77: A Clinical Continuum
👨⚕️ Guest: Dr. Tommy Chan, Neurologist
🎤 Hosted by: Dr. Marjorie Pomerleau
In this conversation, migraine is presented as a lifelong brain disorder rather than “just headaches.” Dr. Chan describes how migraine evolves across the lifespan — from childhood equivalents (such as abdominal migraine or cyclic vomiting) to the classic adult presentation and into older age. The episode highlights age-specific diagnostic nuances, treatment options for children and adolescents, emerging data on CGRP-targeted therapies, and key considerations when managing patients aged 50 and over with comorbidities.
🎙️ Episode 4 — Preventive Treatment in 2025: Who, When and How
👨⚕️ Guest: Dr. Tommy Chan, Neurologist
🎤 Hosted by: Dr. Marjorie Pomerleau
This episode focuses on preventive migraine management in 2025. The discussion explains why prevention is central to reducing attack frequency, disability and the risk of chronification, and when family physicians should initiate preventive therapy (for example, at four or more migraine days per month or highly disabling attacks).
Dr. Chan reviews oral preventive options, medication-overuse headache, and practical pathways to access CGRP-targeted therapies and onabotulinumtoxinA under Canadian reimbursement rules. The new Canadian guidelines on migraine prevention are summarized with concrete cues for primary care implementation.
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