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Some patients suffering from headache require neurologic examination. The objective of the guidelines for the treatment of headaches is to help physicians in their daily care for headache patients. In most patients, the diagnosis of migraine has not been made by a physician and they have not received appropriate care to treat migraine attacks. New therapeutic methods (for acute and preventive treatment) have been introduced in the past fifteen years. Triptans should be offered to patients that fail to respond to usual analgesics, those with moderate to severe migraine in particular. Depending on comorbidity, preventive therapy should be recommended to individuals with frequent or prolonged migraine attacks. In patients with tension headaches, organic causes underlying the headache should be ruled out, while the treatment includes pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures. Although rare, patients with cluster headaches suffer severe pain; oxygen inhalation or triptans are recommended for acute attack, and preventive therapy may be indicated in some cases. The guidelines provide classification, diagnostic criteria and therapeutic principles for primary headaches. All recommendations listed in the guidelines are based on meta-analyses and recommendations from the world literature, with special reference to therapeutic options available in Croatia.

Hemangioblastomas are rare tumors which account for 0.9-2.1% of central nervous system neoplasms. The most common site of hemangioblastomas is the cerebellum, while they are rarely located in spinal cord, cerebrum and brain stem. Hemangioblastomas occur as a sporadic entity, and as a manifestation of von Hippel-Lindau syndrome. A 33-year old patient with isolated cervical spinal cord hemangioblastoma is presented.

The paper gives a historical overview, and describes psychosociological constellation and tactics of the euthanasia movement. Further, medicosocial experiment and medicolegal engineering which preceded it and followed it are presented on the example of euthanasia in The Netherlands. Legal, ethical, formally logical and psychological arguments against euthanasia are presented. The article concludes with the opinion that it was the duty of the World Medical Association to protect medical profession with the procedure of demedicalization of euthanasia, and to appropriately punish the Royal Dutch Medical Society for breaking professional ethical codex in its essential part, which is the basis of the very identity of medical profession.