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Acupressure can reduce pain from chronic headaches, Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Medical University found. Dr Peter Goadsby, director of the headache centre at the University of California at San Francisco, says some people find relief by using their right index finger and thumb to gently squeeze the muscle between their left index finger and thumb.

Jul 11, 2012

The pill-free headache fix

An occasional aspirin is fine. But what if you could ease your pain without pills? You can with our 3-step plan.