The Migraine Research Foundation is helping children with chronic migraine. One of the ways their helping is by giving funding to researchers such as Dr. Golda Ginsburg, who is studying approaches to treatment for children migraineurs.
In this video, hear Dr. Ginsburg discuss her research.
The Migraine Research Foundation is now open to new migraine research proposals. If you’re researching an aspect of migraine, particularly related to migraine in children or women and chronic migraine, submit your proposal now, and you might qualify for a grant.
Here’s what the MRF announced – the application deadline is the 17th of October 2011.
The Migraine Research Foundation is committed to furthering the understanding of the causes and mechanisms of migraine, helping to develop improvements in treatment, and finding the cure. As a result, MRF is actively seeking to provide seed money grants for projects that are important, achievable, and innovative that will ultimately lead to better treatment and quality of life for migraine sufferers.
While MRF welcomes all proposals relevant to basic or clinical migraine research, this year we are particularly interested in projects related to three areas: (1) childhood migraine, (2) migraine in women, and (3) chronic migraine.
For more information, and to submit your application, visit this page at the Migraine Research Foundation: 2011 Request for Proposals Now Open
If you’re looking for a headache or migraine specialist, there’s an updated resource available to you.
The Migraine Research Foundation provides an updated list of specialists listed by state in the USA (with a few in Canada too). Recently, they updated their list to include patient ages. So if you’re looking for a specialist for a child or teen, this is now a very helpful resource.
I recommend you get to a specialist as early as possible in headache and migraine treatment – it can save you a lot of headaches (no pun intended) down the road.
How are the specialists chosen? The document states:
The United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties is an independent, non-profit, professional medical organization that certifies competency in physicians who have passed a special headache subspecialty examination.
To download the list, visit this resource page and click on Doctors certified in headache medicine. You will be accessing a pdf document.
The Migraine Research Foundation Sweepstakes are something else. Be sure to check out their page (while the sweepstakes are still on), even if you don’t intend to enter. Fun stuff!
And from now through Monday, if you buy at least $50 worth of entries, you also get a cool MRF T-shirt!
I can’t enter, since I’m not in the USA. :'( I wonder if I’ll ever get a cool MRF T-shirt…. ???? (hint hint if anyone from the MRF is reading!) 😉
New York (May 20, 2011) – The nonprofit Migraine Research Foundation (MRF) today launched an online sweepstakes with all proceeds going directly to its pioneering research program investigating the causes and better treatments of migraine disease. Featuring amazing prizes for just $10 and $25 a chance, the event makes use of social media and the internet to appeal to MRF’s wide-ranging community across the nation.
Migraine is not just the commonly-known "bad" headache: it is a complex collection of neurological symptoms and a major public health, women’s health, and children’s health problem in the U.S. today. With 36 million Americans suffering from migraine, it is one of the world’s most disabling diseases. 14 million suffer from chronic migraine, when attacks come on a near daily basis, and 3 out of 4 sufferers are women. 10% of all school age children have migraines, with half of all sufferers stricken before the age of 12. MRF invests in research that will unlock the secrets of migraine to understand its causes, develop improved treatments that will enable sufferers to live pain-free, healthy and productive lives, and ultimately, to find the cure.
Enter the sweepstakes at www.migraineresearchfoundation.org/sweepstakes or get more information about the Migraine Research Foundation by going to www.migraineresearchfoundation.org. Those without access to the internet can call MRF’s office at 212-249-5402 to request a paper ballot.