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IHS funded two Visiting Professors to present at the annual meeting in March10/07/2017
Professors Messoud Ashina (Denmark) and Zaza Katsarava (Germany) joined Russian headache specialists during the Russian Headache Society annual meeting 'Headache and comorbidity' in Moscow from 17-19 March
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Meeting held on 6-8 April in Marrakech, Morocco10/07/2017
The 1st African and 2nd Middle East and North African headache meeting was held from 6-8 April in Marrakech, Morocco
Dr Kisani reports
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Reports from the Headache Trainee and Short-stay Scholar10/07/2017
Two young researchers from Ukraine and Iran were awarded the 2016 Headache Trainee and Short-stay Scholarship
Both have now returned home with their new found knowledge and experience, and their reports are attached here
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You can now submit your recent research to IHC 2017 - deadline 12 July!04/07/2017
Late Breaking Abstract Submission is now open! Don’t miss out on the opportunity to showcase your work and share your research.
The submission portal is now open until 12 July 2017. All late breaking abstracts must include results that have been concluded since 20 March 2017.
For further information on abstract topics or how to submit your abstracts please vist the IHC 2017 website.
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The revised Headache Version 2.0 draft recommendations are available for Public Review from 1 June to 10 July28/06/2017
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Headache Common Data Elements (CDE) were developed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical research studies and clinical treatment, increase data quality, facilitate data sharing across studies, more effectively aggregate information into significant metadata results, significantly reduce study start-up time, and help educate new clinical investigators. Since the 2011 release of Version 1.0 of the Headache CDEs, the research community felt that updates were necessary to better serve the purpose of harmonizing data collection.
The revised Headache Version 2.0 draft recommendations were recently developed; they will be available for Public Review from June 1, 2017 – July 10, 2017. The draft recommendations can be downloaded as a zip file from the NINDS website.
Please direct any questions to NINDSCDE@emmes.com and Michael.Oshinsky@nih.gov (NINDS/NIH Program Director, Pain and Migraine).
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IHS is pleased to annouce the election of a new President-elect and Trustees02/06/2017
Following the recent ballot, the following members were elected:
President-elect: Messoud Ashina (Denmark)
Trustees:
Mario Peres (Brazil)
Patricia Pozo-Rosich (Spain)
Todd Schwedt (USA)The new Trustees will be officially elected at the Annual General Meeting on 8 September in Vancouver
Many thanks to all candidates who stood for election and to all members for voting
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Migraine Research Foundation and Association of Migraine Disorders open application for migraine research grants19/05/2017
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 their ability to understand and treat migraine. While they welcome all proposals relevant to basic or clinical migraine research, they are particularly interested in translational projects and those related to migraine variants, childhood migraine, and chronic migraine
For more information see the attached document or click HERE to visit the website
Application deadline: 28 July 2017
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Report from the 6th ARCH meeting, October 2016, Seoul, S Korea24/02/2017
The 6th Asian Regional Conference for Headache was held in October 2016 in Seoul, S Korea, attracting almost 250 delegates who received presentations from both local and international faculty
Mamoru Shibata reports
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The 2015 IHS Fellow reports on his research in the Netherlands24/02/2017
Kristian Haanes from Norway spent a year at Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, studying with Antoinette Maassen van den Brink.
His report on his research and fellowship experience is below
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In late 2016 the Education Committee sent Visiting Professors to teach at meetings in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh24/02/2017
Visiting Professors were sent to teach at meetings in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Rigmor Jensen and Anand Diwan attended the Pre-congress event of the 10th Annual Congress of the Association of Sri Lankan Neurologists in November, and Tissa Wijeratne attended the Society of Neurologists of Bangladesh International Neurology Seminar in December.
Report from the organisers of the meetings are below
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A patient survey to better understand and expand the current body of research on Cluster Headaches23/02/2017
The Cluster Headache Questionnaire (CHQ) is a survey consisting of 144 possible questions, translated in 10 languages, about your patient's experience with Cluster Headache attacks.
The purpose of this survey is to better understand and expand the current body of research on Cluster Headaches
The survey can be accessed HERE from a computer, tablet, or smart phone
For more information see document below.
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Reports received from IHS Short-stay Scholars who attended EHMTIC and then spent a few weeks in key headache centres in the UK17/11/2016
Two young researchers from India and Thailand were awarded Short-stay Scholarships to attend EHMTIC and spent up to 6 weeks at a leading headache centre in the UK
Both have now returned home with their new found knowledge and experience, and their reports are attached here
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News Archive
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MRF announces 2015 award recipients
18/12/2015
The Migraine Research Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the research grants awarded for 2015. The grants will help research into new migraine biomarkers, identifying new treatments from traditional Chinese medicine, studying New Daily Persistent Headache, and more. For information on the awardees see HERE.
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New Editor-in-Chief for Cephalalgia
18/09/2015
IHS is very pleased to announce that Arne May will succeed David Dodick as Editor-in-Chief of Cephalalgia from January 2016.
Arne has served on the IHS Board of Trustees since June 2013, and as an Associate Editor of Cephalalgia since March 2009. He is currently head of one of the largest headache outpatient clinics in Germany, based at the University Clinic in Hamburg (UKE). His scientific interest in headache is long-standing, and he has published papers and book chapters on genetics, epidemiology, physiology and pathophysiology of the trigeminovascular system, headache classification and phenotype, as well as functional imaging.
Arne said "This is a huge opportunity and I am very honoured to be appointed. All my vigour will be to keep Cephalalgia where it has so successfully been led by David Dodick and former Editors: the best journal to publish the best headache science available".
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IHS Visiting Professors in Bulgaria and Estonia
12/08/2015
Alan Rapoport and Nina Latysheva attended the 14th Bulgarian National Congress in Varna, Bulgaria, in May as IHS Visiting Professors. Read the meeting report here.
Messoud Ashina and Alan Rapoport presented at the 2015 Estonian Headache Society annual meeting - Mark Braschinsky reports.
Slide presentations from the Estonian meeting, and also the Moroccan and Azerbaijan Visiting Professor meetings, are available in the Learning Centre/Visiting Professors.
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5th ARCH meeting report
28/07/2015
The 5th Asian Regional Conference on Headache meeting, 'Challenges in headache disorders' was held in Thailand in January. Congress organisers Siwaporn Changkrachang and Surat Tanprawate report.
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Report on 1st Pan-African meeting
28/07/2015
The first Turkish Pan-African meeting on 'Headache and pain management' took place in May 2015 in Istanbul and attracted 80 senior and junior neurologists from 10 different African countries.
The meeting was organised by Professor Hayrunnisa Bolay from Ankara, and run under the auspices of IHS.
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Visiting Professor Reports - Azerbaijan, Morocco
28/07/2015
The IHS Visiting Professor initiative sends headache specialists as representatives of IHS to attend regional meetings, or teach at a headache centre, in countries that might need or want increased headache education and motivation but where without financial support attendance of an international specialist would not be possible.
We report on two recent Visiting Professor projects in Azerbaijan and Morocco.
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ICHD-3-beta Portuguese translation
28/07/2014
A Portuguese translation of the ICHD-3-beta is now available.
This work has been completed by a team of Portuguese headache specialists, including José Pereira Monteiro (Coordinator), José Rocha Barros, Paula Esperança, Gabriela Fernandes, Helena Gens, Raquel Gil Gouveia, Isabel Luzeiro, Jorge Machado, Isabel Pavão Martins, Fernando Matias, Maria Manuela Palmeira, Elsa Parreira, Carlos Fontes Ribeiro, Alfredo Sá and Lívia Sousa.
The translation will be published in the official Journal of the Portuguese Neurological Society (Sinapse) to enable dissemination of this highly relevant information for daily clinical practice among our Portuguese-speaking colleagues, over the world.
The translation was sponsored by the Portuguese Headache Society and the Portuguese Neurological Society.
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'Headache and Pain' - book published
10/03/2014
Headache and other types of pain have some common characteristics concerning pain generation and chronicity. But some distinct pathophysiological processes are unique to the headache. This book explores pain mechanisms, diagnosis, and management of headache and other chronic pain through sessions of a joint symposium of IASP and the International Headache Society. This book, edited by Ralf Baron (IASP) and Arne May (IHS), represents the current state of scientific discussions of the respective fields in both pain areas.
See the IASP website for more information
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ICHD-3-beta Spanish translation
17/02/2014
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ICHD-3-beta slide kit now available
17/02/2014
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Additional ICHD-3-beta slides now available
09/09/2013
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ICHD-3-beta slides now available
06/09/2013
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Cephalalgia App released
20/06/2013
The Cephalalgia App is now available for download through the iTunes store.
Simply click here to see the Cephalalgia app in iTunes.
The App will be freely available until the end of August, when it will become an IHS membership benefit.
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ICHD-3 beta now published
17/06/2013
The ICHD-3 beta version is now published in the July issue of Cephalalgia and is freely available for download. Please see the attached Editorial, and start to use this version.
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Dr Marcia Wilkinson, one of the first Editors of Cephalalgia, has died aged 93
05/02/2013
Marcia was a Life Member of IHS, and in 2011 wrote an Editorial to recognise the 30th anniversary of the Society and Cephalalgia. IHS offer condolences to her family.