By Christina Jewett of The New York Times If you don’t suffer from migraine headaches, you probably know at least one person who does. Nearly 40 million Americans get them 28 million of them women and girls making migraine the second most disabling condition in the world after low back pain. .
This ‘woman’s disease’ doesn’t get a lot of research funding, but the medical establishment has made strides in developing new drugs and devices to combat migraine over the last five years.