OUCH(UK) are pleased to announce, in conjunction with The European Headache Federation and European Headache Alliance, we will be promoting the second Cluster Headache Awareness Day. This will be held on 21st March 2017.

We welcome fundraising efforts by our members for this day, and we have created a Cluster Headache Awareness Day poster for you to print at home, and up in your workplace, local GPs, and in your community.

We are of course happy for you to download and print your own awareness posters. they are located in our downloads section under handouts for friends, family and colleagues.

If you are planning to promote Cluster Headache Awareness Day in your local area and need further information, please email...

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.
 
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