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Migraine Action Association
Migraine Action (MA) was the UK's leading charity offering support and advisory information to those affected by migraine, whether individuals, families, employers or employees and medical professionals. It closed in 2018. History The association was founded in 1958 by Peter Wilson and a group of people who suffered from migraines, under the name British Migraine Association. It was a member of the Headache UK alliance. Its office was based in Leicester but MA was a national organization, helping the one in seven people estimated to be affected by migraine across the UK, including 10% of school-aged children. The charity ran a telephone helpline and had over a hundred Department of Health-accredited leaflets on all aspects of migraine. It also ran a specialist headache nurse service, had websites for adults and children with migraine, ran information and support events around the UK and helped to fund research into migraine and to support the work of specialist migraine centres. T ...
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Migraine
Migraine (, ) is a common neurological disorder characterized by recurrent headaches. Typically, the associated headache affects one side of the head, is pulsating in nature, may be moderate to severe in intensity, and could last from a few hours to three days. Non-headache symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, and photophobia, sensitivity to light, hyperacusis, sound, or Osmophobia, smell. The pain is generally made worse by physical activity during an attack,as PDF
although regular physical exercise may prevent future attacks. Up to one-third of people affected have Aura (symptom), aura: typically, it is a short period of visual disturbance that signals that the headache will soon occur. Occasionally, aura can occur with little or no headache follow ...
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Headache UK
The Migraine Trust is a British registered charity (no. 1081300), whose aim is to "empower, inform, and support those affected by migraine, while educating health professionals and actively funding and disseminating research". It was founded in 1965 and is part of the Headache UK alliance. The other members of the Headache UK alliance are OUCH (UK) (the Organisation for the Understanding of Cluster Headache), the Migraine Action Association Migraine Action (MA) was the UK's leading charity offering support and advisory information to those affected by migraine, whether individuals, families, employers or employees and medical professionals. It closed in 2018. History The association ..., the British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH) and Migraine in Primary Care Advisors. References External linksOfficial website*Headache UK* * Neurology organizations Migraine Health charities in the United Kingdom {{UK-charity-stub ...
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Leicester
Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands. The city lies on the River Soar and close to the eastern end of the National Forest, England, National Forest. It is situated to the north-east of Birmingham and Coventry, south of Nottingham and west of Peterborough. The population size has increased by 38,800 ( 11.8%) from around 329,800 in 2011 to 368,600 in 2021 making it the most populous municipality in the East Midlands region. The associated Urban area#United Kingdom, urban area is also the 11th most populous in England and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, 13th most populous in the United Kingdom. Leicester is at the intersection of two railway lines: the Midland Main Line and the Birmingham to London Stansted Airport line. It is also at the confluence of the M1 motorway, M1/M ...
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Radio 4 Appeal
The ''Radio 4 Appeal'' is a British radio programme on BBC Radio 4. Each week a single speaker, usually a celebrity, appeals for support for a different charity (for example Paul Heiney appealed on behalf of Send a Cow in 2008, while Ross Noble appealed on behalf of Riders for Health in 2010). Listeners are invited to respond by sending cheques using a Freepost address, or can make payments online or by telephone. Listeners can also set up a standing order payment to support all 52 charities each year. The programme is transmitted at 07:55 and 21:26 on Sunday, and at 15:27 on the following Thursday. It is governed by the BBC's Charity Appeal Policy. Each year since 1927, the BBC has broadcast a special Christmas Appeal in association with St Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square, London. This raises funds which are divided equally between The Connection at St Martin's, which supports vulnerable and homeless people in central London, and the Vicar's Relief Fund, which ...
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Sarah Jarvis
Sarah Caroline Jarvis FRCGP (born 3 December 1962) is a general practitioner, broadcaster, and television doctor. Career She qualified as a medical doctor in July 1986 from University of Oxford with a BM BCh, having graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in nutrition in 1983, and was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is the professional body for general (medical) practitioners (GPs/Family Physicians/Primary Care Physicians) in the United Kingdom. The RCGP represents and supports GPs on key issues including l .... Sarah recently resigned as a partner and GP trainerafter 27 years in her Shepherd's Bush practice and now works as a locum. She joined the practice in 1990. She is also the health and medical reporter for ''The One Show'', a television doctor on ''Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme), Good Morning Britain'', ''ITV News'' and ''Jeremy Vine (TV programm ...
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Migraine Trust
The Migraine Trust is a British registered charity (no. 1081300), whose aim is to "empower, inform, and support those affected by migraine Migraine (, ) is a common neurological disorder characterized by recurrent headaches. Typically, the associated headache affects one side of the head, is pulsating in nature, may be moderate to severe in intensity, and could last from a few hou ..., while educating health professionals and actively funding and disseminating research". It was founded in 1965 and is part of the Headache UK alliance. The other members of the Headache UK alliance are OUCH (UK) (the Organisation for the Understanding of Cluster Headache), the Migraine Action Association, the British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH) and Migraine in Primary Care Advisors. References External linksOfficial website*Headache UK* * Neurology organizations Migraine Health charities in the United Kingdom {{UK-charity-stub ...
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Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection is a museum and library based at 183 Euston Road, London, displaying a mixture of medical artefacts and original artworks exploring "ideas about the connections between medicine, life and art". Founded in 2007, the Wellcome Collection attracts over 550,000 visitors per year. The venue offers contemporary and historic exhibitions and collections, the Wellcome Library, a café, a bookshop and conference facilities. In addition to its physical facilities, Wellcome Collection maintains a website of original articles and archived images related to health. History and development Wellcome Collection is part of the Wellcome Trust, founded by Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936). An extensive and enthusiastic traveller, Henry Wellcome amassed a huge collection of books, paintings and objects on the theme of historical development of medicine worldwide. There was an earlier Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at 54a Wigmore Street, housing artefacts from around t ...
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Migraine
Migraine (, ) is a common neurological disorder characterized by recurrent headaches. Typically, the associated headache affects one side of the head, is pulsating in nature, may be moderate to severe in intensity, and could last from a few hours to three days. Non-headache symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, and photophobia, sensitivity to light, hyperacusis, sound, or Osmophobia, smell. The pain is generally made worse by physical activity during an attack,as PDF
although regular physical exercise may prevent future attacks. Up to one-third of people affected have Aura (symptom), aura: typically, it is a short period of visual disturbance that signals that the headache will soon occur. Occasionally, aura can occur with little or no headache follow ...
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Health Charities In The United Kingdom
Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organization''– ''Basic Documents'', Forty-fifth edition, Supplement, October 2006. A variety of definitions have been used for different purposes over time. Health can be promoted by encouraging healthful activities, such as regular physical exercise and adequate sleep, and by reducing or avoiding unhealthful activities or situations, such as smoking or excessive stress. Some factors affecting health are due to individual choices, such as whether to engage in a high-risk behavior, while others are due to structural causes, such as whether the society is arranged in a way that makes it easier or harder for people to get necessary healthcare services. Still, other factors are beyond both individual and group choices, such as genetic disorders. ...
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Neurology Organizations
Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal cord and the peripheral nerves. Neurological practice relies heavily on the field of neuroscience, the scientific study of the nervous system. A neurologist is a physician specializing in neurology and trained to investigate, diagnose and treat neurological disorders. Neurologists treat a myriad of neurologic conditions, including stroke, seizures, movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, autoimmune neurologic disorders such as multiple sclerosis, headache disorders like migraine and dementias such as Alzheimer's disease. Neurologists may also be involved in clinical research, clinical trials, and basic or translational research. While neurology is a nonsurgical specialty, its corresponding surgical specialty is neurosurgery. Histor ...
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Organizations Established In 1958
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. The word is derived from the Greek word ''organon'', which means tool or instrument, musical instrument, and organ. Types There are a variety of legal types of organizations, including corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, political organizations, international organizations, armed forces, charities, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, and educational institutions, etc. A hybrid organization is a body that operates in both the public sector and the private sector simultaneously, fulfilling public duties and developing commercial market activities. A voluntary association is an organization consisting of volunteers. Such organizations may be able to operate without legal formalities, depending on jurisdiction, incl ...
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Charities Based In Leicestershire
A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good). The legal definition of a charitable organization (and of charity) varies between countries and in some instances regions of the country. The regulation, the tax treatment, and the way in which charity law affects charitable organizations also vary. Charitable organizations may not use any of their funds to profit individual persons or entities. (However, some charitable organizations have come under scrutiny for spending a disproportionate amount of their income to pay the salaries of their leadership). Financial figures (e.g. tax refund, revenue from fundraising, revenue from sale of goods and services or revenue from investment) are indicators to assess the financial sustainability of a charity, especially to charity evaluators. This information can impact a chari ...
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