This guidance is intended to help healthcare providers integrate CGRP-targeting therapies into their practices.

This potentially reduces the frequency and severity of migraine attacks.

We have known for decades that one of these proteins is CGRP, he said.

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Just over the past few years, we finally have medications that can block this inflammatory protein.

The new CGRP-targeting therapies are used specifically to abort or prevent a migraine, Jones said.