Chronic, persistent headaches can have many causes. A proportion of headache sufferers end up taking ever-increasing doses of painkillers in order to treat their problem. Eventually, painkillers ...

Over the past two weeks, I have had a constant headache. I have cut down my intake of caffeine and sugar but to no avail.

A man’s “constant” headaches turned out to be terminal cancer — now doctors have told him that he has just 15 months to live. Ricky Smith, a 39-year-old father of three and stepfather to a ...