How many drugs treat Tension-type headache?

Drug Landscape tracks 4 marketed treatments for Tension-type headache (deduplicated by molecule). 0 Phase 3 candidates and 0 Phase 2 candidates are in the pipeline.

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Tension-type headache — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence

Name: Drug Landscape Pharmaceutical Database
Creator: Drug Landscape
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tension-type headache (disease) competitive landscape: 4 marketed treatments tracked, 0 Phase 3 candidates, 0 Phase 2 candidates. Recent regulatory actions and upcoming PDUFA dates across the entire treatment set.

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Marketed treatment landscape

Approved drugs treating Tension-type headache, deduplicated by molecule. See the full disease page for line-of-therapy detail.

Drug	Generic	Sponsor	Class	Target	First approval
Butalbital, Aspirin And Caffeine	BUTALBITAL	Actavis Labs Ut Inc	Barbiturate [EPC]	GABA-A receptor alpha-1/beta-3/gamma-2	1976-01-01
Acetaminophen	Paracetamol	Polymedica	acetaminophen	Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 4	1968-01-01
Codeine	codeine phosphate	Generic (multiple manufacturers)	Opioid analgesic, Antitussive	Delta-type opioid receptor, Kappa-type opioid receptor, Mu-type opioid receptor	1950-01-01
Norgesic	caffeine	Hikma	Central Nervous System Stimulant [EPC]	Adenosine receptor A2a	1948-01-01

Phase 3 pipeline

No Phase 3 pipeline candidates tracked.

Phase 2 pipeline

No Phase 2 pipeline candidates tracked.

Recent regulatory actions (last 90 days)

No regulatory actions in the last 90 days for this treatment set.

Upcoming PDUFA dates (next 180 days)

No PDUFA dates in the next 180 days for this treatment set.

Sponsor landscape

Actavis Labs Ut Inc · 1 drug in Tension-type headache
Generic (multiple manufacturers) · 1 drug in Tension-type headache
Hikma · 1 drug in Tension-type headache
Polymedica · 1 drug in Tension-type headache

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Drug Landscape (2026). Tension-type headache — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/disease/tension-type-headache. Accessed 2026-06-10.

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