The scope of the trial has been widened to include chronic sufferers of CH as well as ECH sufferers. Volunteers of either status are urgently needed to move forward this important drug trial. For more details, please contact info@ouchuk.org stating whether you are ECH OR CCH for the criteria of each trial. If you do one thing for CH this year, make it participation in this trial.

If you've ever said you wanted to do something to help sufferers and you are a sufferer yourself, well here is your opportunity!
 
Study of CGRPss in Episodic Cluster Headache
 
Professor Goadsby at King's College Hospital, London is looking for volunteers for an important study of CGRPs [calcitonin gene related peptides] in episodic cluster headache sufferers. The criteria for participants for the CGRP TRIAL have been amended:

• The participant needs to be an episodic or chronic sufferer;  if episodic within first two to three weeks of cycle; can be at very start of the cycle but need to have 8 weeks of cycle left after enrolling to this trial; chronic sufferers,...

We are delighted to announce our next meeting will take place on October 19th in London in the Governance Hall at the world renowned St Thomas' Hospital by kind permission of Guys & St Thomas Hospitals Trust, Dr Adnan Al-Kaisy Clinical lead and Consultant in Pain and Neuromodulation and Dr Giorgio Lambru, consultant neurologist of St Thomas' Hospital Headache Team.   This will be a very special meeting as we have some topline speakers.
 
Speakers so far confirmed are: 
 
Professor Peter Goadsby, our patron and director of the Welcome Trust Neuroscience research facility at Kings College Hospital;
 
Dr Giorgio Lambru, Consultant Neurologist and Lead of the Headache...

OUCH is delighted to announce the member’s forum and online payments will be operational from 26 February.  We apologise for the delay in making this available, but we can assure you we have been working hard behind the scenes to replace the hacked website and forum.  An e-mail will be sent to all members with a one time only password to give you access both to the forum and your own account and instructions for how to do this will be included and what to do next.
 
The site may be unavailable at certain times in the next couple of weeks - please don't worry as we are carrying out vital updates that require the site to be offline for short periods. Thank you for your understanding and patience.
 
31/01/14

Give an unusual and fun Christmas present that lasts a whole year!

2014 is not far away and yet again Helen Hardwick and her wonderful group of friends have got together and produced a fun and saucy OUCH Calendar – this year pictures are all on the theme of  sport!   You'll never watch boxing or darts in quite the same light again!  Helen's father is a CH sufferer and the calendar is Helen's way of raising funds as a thank you for what OUCH has done to help her father. Helen and her friends raise money to cover the production costs so that the entire profit comes to OUCH.   Its a really unusual way of saying thank you and a brilliant answer to the annual conundrum of what to give someone as a Christmas present....