The translation of Treatment of Headache in Primary Care

New educational Program on Migraine and Headache

TTTT he first edition of the Almirall Almirall Almirall Almirall European Headache Award European Headache Award European Headache Award European Headache Award

(AEHA)(AEHA)(AEHA)(AEHA) will be launched in 2009 with the support of the European Headache Federation (EHF). With the objective of recognising their work, neurologists or trainee neu-rologists at Neurology Departments in Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal

and Spain will be invited to partici-pate and submit challenging clini-cal cases of headache and mi-graine. Each specialist will be al-lowed to present one clinical case as a primary author. Each case will be submitted online to a web-site and will be evaluated by a

of management of common headache disorders in primary care”. The general diffusion and daily use of these aids will be able to accelerate the headache control process for both epi-sodic and chronic patients with unfavor-able access to spe-cialized health struc-

January 2009 Number 57

EHF NEWS NEWSLETTER OF THE EUROPEAN HEADACHE FEDERAT ION

TTTT he European Headache Federa-tion (EHF) dedicates its efforts to

improving awareness of headache disorders and their impact amongst governments, health care providers and consumers across Europe. At the end of 2007 World Health Or-ganization guarantied its approval to a document “Aids for management of common headache disorders” realized by the European Headache Federation in collaboration with Lift-ing the Burden: The Global Cam-paign to Reduce the Burden of Headache Worldwide. These guide-lines have been published in a Sup-plement of The Journal and Head-ache and Pain in order to obtain widespread diffusion, ant his was the case counting the thousands of download obtained by the docu-ment. The collaborative arrange-ment between WHO and WHA, IHS and EHF provided an input to create the aids for management of com-mon headache disorders in primary care namely “European principles

Short News: • THE EHF IS FOSTERING A

DEPEER DIFFUSION VIA THE

TRANSLATION IN MANY

NATIONAL LANGUAGES

• THE ALMIRALL EUROPEAN

HEADACHE AWARD (AEHA)

WILL BE LAUNCHED IN

2009.

• A NEW EUROPEAN PRIZE

FOR THE SELECTION OF

UNUSUAL CASE REPORT .

In this issue

THE TRANSLATION OF TREATMENT OF HEADACHE IN PRIMARY CARE

1

NEW EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ON MIGRAINE AND HEADACHE

1

THE NEWSLETTER OF THE EUROPEAN HEADACHE ALLIANCE

2

MASTER IN HEADACHE MEDICINE

3

JHP’S RAPID EXPANSION 3

WHAT’S ON 3

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The Global Campaign to Reduce the Burden of Headache Worldwide.

The first number of the newsletter of the European Headache Alliance (EHA) has been recently published and is available for download at the website www.european-headache-alliance.eu. It contains the sum-mary of the main activities of EHA for 2008: the report of the Meeting

of the Spanish Headache Association, which was held in Madrid in April; the scientific report and the account of the lay events that took place in Lon-don for the first European Headache

and Migraine Trust International Con-gress and, finally, a full description of the European Migraine Day of Action in September in Ireland, with the participation of the Irish Minister of Health.

For more information please visit www-european-headache-alliance.eu

C. Tassorelli (Pavia)C. Tassorelli (Pavia)C. Tassorelli (Pavia)C. Tassorelli (Pavia)

The Newletter of the European Headache Alliance

New educational Program on Migraine and Headache (continue from page 1)

the prizes will be.

This educational program is pro-vided by a educational grant from Laboratorios Almirall and is sup-

ported by the EHF.

The editorial officeThe editorial officeThe editorial officeThe editorial office

panel of international headache specialists. This Scientific Commit-tee will be composed of the follow-ing Professors: Fabio Antonaci (Italy, Chair), Koen Paemeleire (Belgium), Dominique Valade (France), Lidia Savi (Italy), Pereira Monteiro (Portugal) and José

Miguel Láinez (Spain).

This academic board will be re-sponsible for the selection of a maximum of 15 clinical cases for oral presentation in the AEHA Fo-rum in which approximately 40 participating specialists will be in-vited. All the cases presented will be published and the fifteen final-ist cases will be published as a supplement in the Journal of

Headache and Pain.

The Scientific Committee will choose the best three clinical cases that will receive different prizes. Shortly we will let you know what

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EHF NEWS

The Almirall European Headache Awards l

“THIS EDUCATIONAL

PROGRAM IS

PROVIDED BY A

EDUCATIONAL

GRANT FROM

LABORATORIOS

ALMIRALL AND IS

SUPPORTED BY THE

EHF”

The first Issue of EHA Newsletter

T he Master in Headache Master in Headache Master in Headache Master in Headache

Medicine Medicine Medicine Medicine is aimed at

developing excellence among

experts in this field of clinical

medicine. Its purpose is to

promote and disseminate

epidemiological, nosographic,

genetic, pathophysiological,

diagnostic, social-health,

clinical and therapeutic

knowledge of headache, a

disease that has a

considerable impact on the

general population. This high-

level post-graduate course will

provide successful applicants

with the instruments

necessary to make a modern

evaluation of headaches that

will allow the correct

management of affected

patients. Course participants

will be able to acquire

multidisciplinary competences

that will enable them to relate

to the problems of headache

patients by means of the most

wideranging, inter-cultural

skills. The Master is included

in the Global Campaign to

Reduce the Burden of

Headache Worldwide (GC), an

initiative in collaboration with

WHO, and is endorsed by the

European Headache

Federation. The e-learning

section is organized in alliance

with Springer.For Further

informations, please contact:

Caterina Panetta Master in

Headache Medicine Registrar's

office 2nd School of Medicine

and Surgery

University of Rome "La

Sapienza"

Via Vitorchiano 81

00189 Rome

E mail:

http://

w3.uniroma1.it/

headache

of EHF members towards JHP,

which they feel now as own

journal, and a complete edito-

rial independence. A new Edi-

torial Board has been ap-

pointed and in the future the

bond between the journal, its

readership and EHF will be

reinforced.

TTTT he Journal of Headache he Journal of Headache he Journal of Headache he Journal of Headache

and Pain and Pain and Pain and Pain held its Editorial

Board in London, during the

recent EHMTIC. The expansion

observed in the last twelve

months is expressed by a huge

increase of downloaded pa-

pers and a further reduced

publishing timeline JHP's inclu-

sion into Science Citation In-

dex Expanded has been re-

ported and its forthcoming

inclusion into Current Contents

will occur after twenty-four

months, according to the usual

timeline of Thomson Reuters

(formerly ISI). June 2011 will

be the publishing date of JHP

Impact Factor in Journal Cita-

tion Report. These results are

astonishing if we consider the

journal's young age (only nine

years) and the keen competi-

tion in the Neurosciences

area. Yet they rely on the trust

Master in Headache Medicine

A Read-Out on JHP’s Rapid Expansion

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Master in Hea-dache Medici-ne 2008-2009

The Journal of Headache and Pain

What’s on...What’s on...What’s on...

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laineza@medynet..com

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Milan, Italy Milan, Italy Milan, Italy Milan, Italy

19th Meeting of the European

Neurological Society I

Information:

www.ensinfo.org

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Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon, Portugal

6th Congress of the European

Federation of IASP Chapters (EFIC)

Information:

E-mail: secretary@efic.org

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Philadelphia, USA Philadelphia, USA Philadelphia, USA Philadelphia, USA

14th International Headache Con-

gress/ 51st Annual Scientific Meeting

of the American Headache Society.

Information:

E-mail: ahshq@talley.com

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Florence, Italy Florence, Italy Florence, Italy Florence, Italy

13th Congress of the European Fed-

eration of Neurological Societes

(EFNS)

Information:

www.kenes.com/efns2009

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Nice, France Nice, France Nice, France Nice, France

European Headache and Migraine

Trust International Congress.

Information:

ehmtic@kenes.com

steps: 1. Coordination of the transla-1. Coordination of the transla-1. Coordination of the transla-1. Coordination of the transla-

tion 2. Translation into target language, tion 2. Translation into target language, tion 2. Translation into target language, tion 2. Translation into target language,

3. Production of a consensus3. Production of a consensus3. Production of a consensus3. Production of a consensus----based based based based

translation, 4. Quality assessment, translation, 4. Quality assessment, translation, 4. Quality assessment, translation, 4. Quality assessment,

and 5. Report of the translation proc-and 5. Report of the translation proc-and 5. Report of the translation proc-and 5. Report of the translation proc-

ess. ess. ess. ess. There has been, so far, request

for a translation into Russian, Molda-

vian, Italian and Bulgarian language.

The production of the translation is ex-

pected by the first three months of

2009.

Fabio Antonaci (Pavia)Fabio Antonaci (Pavia)Fabio Antonaci (Pavia)Fabio Antonaci (Pavia)

tures. Due to the success of the guidelines, the EHF is fostering a deeper diffu-

sion via the translation in national languages in those countries where English language is not currently used in the daily medical routine.

Translations of all tech-

nical documents should

follow the guidelines of

Lifting The Burden (The

Global Campaign to Re-

duce the Burden of Headache World-

wide) to ensure a high quality of

translation and to be approved by

the Translation Working Group. The

translation will follow five major

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EHF NEWS

Editor: F. Antonaci (Pavia)

Co-editor: E. Couturier (Amsterdam)

Legal Director: A. Arrigo (Pavia)

Registration n° 464/1996

Publisher: Tipografia Viscontea, Pavia, Italy

EHF Newsletter is published bimonthly by the European Headache Federation, whose business of-

fices are located at the Department of Neurological Sciences “C. Mondino” Foundation, University

of Pavia, Via Mondino 2, 27100, Pavia, Italy (neuronet@libero.it).

Purpose: EHF Newsletter, a European Headache Federation publication, is dedicated to increasing

physicians’ awareness by educating and informing them as to what is going on in the field of hea-

dache in Europe.

This newsletter seeks to provide timely and accurate information from the most knowledgeable

sources. The newsletter is mailed to EHF members, national drug companies and medical journa-

lists in line with information given by board members. The views expressed in the articles in EHF

News are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the EHF and the Publisher.

EHF News: e-bullettin of ther European Headache Federation

PRESIDENT

• Fabio Antonaci (Italy)

1st VICE-PRESIDENT

• Dominique Valade (France)

2nd VICE-PRESIDENT

• Rigmor Jensen (Denmark)

GENERAL SECRETARY

• Dimos Mitsikostas (Greece)

TREASURER

• Ivan Milanov (Bulgaria)

MEMBERS AT LARGE

• Zaza Katsarava (Georgia)

• Josè.Pereira Monteira (Portugal)

• Maria.Wysocha-Bakowska

(Poland)

• Paolo Martelletti, Italy (Editor in

Chief JHP)

European Headache Federation is

incorporated in England and Wales

as a company limited by guarantee;

registered charity no. 1084181

EUROPEAN

HEADACHE

FEDERATION

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Unione Stampa Periodica Italiana

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