European survey. Analysis of results and conclusions. The objective of this study is to know the situation of migraine workers within the workplace and compare the situation in the different participating countries. Read de complete document in our Publications section
Each year, September 12th is the International Migraine Day of Action. Today, EMHA’s President and Executive Director have been invited by MEP Esteban Gonzalez Pons and MEP Dolors Montserrat to the European Parliament to discuss about how to better help the affected ones to give light to the disease and how to improve the life of the affected ones. Migraine is a chronic disease which negatively influences patients’ lives and their ability to fully integrate within society. About 15% of the European population has to deal with this neurological disease . It means that in average, in your country, 1 [...]
Elena Ruiz de la Torre, presented at the IHC the movement #LightToMigraine, an initiative to mobilize and activate the Affected Migraine community and show how extraordinary they are.
Nancy Baum Lipsitz remembers the night the pain began. She’d had a glass of white wine with a friend and went to bed with a terrible headache. The next day, she still felt horrible, the beginning of what she called a “rolling tide” of near constant migraines and lower level headaches. For three years she dealt with the symptoms. Sometimes she got tunnel vision, or a visual aura, a warning that a big headache was on the way. Those felt like “someone taking a pick and jabbing it through my nose and eye,” she said. Then there was the vomiting, [...]
What Can Yoga Do for Migraine Relief? Yoga can provide more than just physical fitness. It can bring calm and peace to your mind and body, as well as help with ailments such as anxiety, depression, and pain. It isn’t clear exactly how yoga changes the body in this manner, though the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) may play a role. During yoga, the PNS can slow your heart rate and lower your blood pressure. This allows your body to recover after a stressful event, such as a migraine. Not only is yoga a holistic approach to fighting migraines as they’re [...]
Eli Lilly announces that the European Commission (EC) has approved the commercialization of galcanezumab ( Emgality ) as a prophylactic treatment of migraine in adults suffering from at least four days of migraine per month . Galcanezumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody that binds to the peptide related to the calcite gene (CGRP, for its acronym in English) associated with episodes of migraine, blocks its function Administered with a month subcutaneous injection which can be applied to the patient with a pen or pre-filled syringe. In all three clinical trials, galcanezumab has shown significantly reducing the monthly average of migraine days and an improvement in functionality versus placebo. "Migraine is [...]
AEMICE together with Universidad de Sevilla (Seville University) and Novartis and a scientific committee of expert neurologists has created the "Migraine Atlas 2018" which reflects the real situation of the 4.5 million people who suffer from migraine in Spain! Unlike other studies "Migraine Atlas" includes the patients and also their families perspective about their condition, the healthcare system, effectivity of treatments, psicological aspects, limitations within their social lives, at the workplace, at home, self-medication and or fears and hopes, all these collected through questionnaire done to more than 2.500 people with migraine. Moreover, the inform shows an analysis of the scientific lecture and other [...]
We would like to give the warmest and biggest congratulations to our Board Officer and Cluster Headache Delegate, Kalina Tyminski!!! We are beyond proud to announce that Mrs. Tyminski just received a Certificate of Commendation for Young Volunteer Advocate from the EFNA Advocacy Awards 2018. Thank you for all your hard work, dedication, outstanding contribution and always enormous effort for our cause. Keep the great work!
Copenhagen University is now offering a Master on Headache Disorders. It´s a continuing professional development programme for healthcare professionals. The programme requires a minimum of 6 individual visits to Copenhagen, Denmark over a two-year period: Modules 1 to 4 are organized with an e-learning self-study period followed by one week of face-to-face sessions at University of Copenhagen. Module 5 is a three week clinical course at the Danish Headache Centre. Module 6 is the final module. This module is comprised of a master’s thesis, which is completed with an oral examination in Denmark. This medical master’s programme consists of modules covering headache [...]
Migraine Awareness Week 2018 MAI held an accredited Health Care Professional Seminar, during which two international speakers presented on Migraine: Diagnosis and Treatment, and the Development of the new Anti-CGRP medication. Prof. Lars Edvinsson and Prof. Allan Purdy, both members of the IHS, followed this up by doing a webinar for members of the Irish Pharmacy Union In conjunction with this, MAI has been running a campaign ‘A Headache a Day is not Okay’ to encourage migraineurs to consult with their pharmacist regarding medication and treatment for migraine, while avoiding Medication Overuse Headache. MAI is also encouraging pharmacists to build [...]
