IHS has supported three international speakers to lecture at the International Conference on Childhood Headache held in Moldova from 25-27 May.

Chair of the IHS Child and Adolescent Committee, who presented at the conference, reports on the event.

IHS is proud to announce the publication of Cephalalgia Reports - a new open-access online silhouette journal to Cephalalgia.

View the first published articles HERE

Headache highlights 2017 - Junior editors' choice

Deep brain stimulation of posterior hypothalmic area for cluster headache - Huotarinen et al

Episodic unilateral mydriasis and recurrent headache - Maas and Verrips

Safety profile of a special butterbur extract from Petasites hybridus in migraine prevention with emphasis on the liver - Diener et al

The Migraine Research Foundation (MRF) and the Association of Migraine Disorders (AMD) announce the opening of a joint Request for Proposals for migraine research grants. They are looking for projects that will help sufferers by advancing our ability to understand and treat migraine. As a result, seed money grants are available for transformational projects that will ultimately lead to better treatment and quality of life for sufferers of migraine and migraine disorders

While all proposals relevant to basic or clinical migraine research are welcome, they are particularly interested in translational projects and those related to migraine variants, childhood migraine, and chronic migraine.

Award value: A maximum of $50,000 will be awarded for each grant.

Duration: The expected project duration is one year.

Application deadline: 3 August 2018

For more information see information below or visit http://migraineresearchfoundation.org/for-researchers/2018-mrf-impact-award/

The Headache Research Unit (HeadRUN) at the University Department of Neurology CHR has an open position for a PhD candidate/research fellow (6- month trial period, up to 2 years funding). The position is available from August.

See attached for more information

Deadline for application: 15 June 2018

IHS was pleased to offer funding to Tissa Wijeratne from Australia to visit his home country of Sri Lanka and teach 100 local physicians, students, nurses and healthcare colleagues on many aspects of headache medicine.

His report is attached

The IHS Clinical Trials Committee has updated the 'Guidelines of IHS for controlled trials of preventive treatment of chronic migraine in adults' and this has been published today online in Cephalalgia.

The guidelines can be viewed and downloaded in the Guidelines section

IHS welcomes three new members to the Trainees and Residents Special Interest Group (T&R SIG):

Sajedeh Eftekhari (Sweden)
Miji Lee (S Korea)
Francesca Puledda (UK)

Congratulations and welcome!

IHS offers grants and fellowships to young people to further their studies in Headache Medicine.

Two programmes are specifically aimed at young people from developing nations – the Education Committee ‘Headache Trainee Programme’ and the Trainees and Residents SIG ‘Short-stay Scholarship’. The information and application for both these programmes can be found HERE.

We are often asked by young people from these countries, who are not as in touch with the major research and clinical headache centres and headache specialists, for suggestions as to who they can approach to discuss a possible placement, and during the Emerging Leaders session held during IHC 2017 we said IHS would post a list of headache centres and mentors willing to accept fellows on the website.

We would be most grateful for your help with this. If you could host one of these Trainees or Scholars for the short period of time for these programmes (up to 3 months for the Trainee programme and from 4-6 weeks for the Short-stay Scholarship) please let us know. All we will need from you is:

• Institution name
• Mentor name
• Contact email address
• Type of placement: Clinical; Clinical Research; Basic Research; Combination (please

Please send to Carol Taylor or contact Carol if you would like any further information

The final version of the eagerly awaited International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd edition (ICHD-3) ( Cephalalgia 2018, vol 28, issue 1) is now available online on the Cephalalgia website and in the Guidelines section of the IHS website.

The ICHD-3 is freely available.

If you would like a print copy, these can be purchased from the Publisher. Please email subscriptions@sagepub.co.uk and quote ‘volume 38 issue 1 ICHD-3'

A selection of posters presented at IHC 2017, Vancouver, are now freely available in the IHS website Poster Library which can be found in the Learning Centre

If you presented a poster at IHC 2017 and would like it to be included please send as a pdf to Carol Taylor

The late-breaking abstracts submitted to IHC 2017, Vancouver, are now included in the Cephalalgia IHC abstract supplement. Click HERE to access