Migraine is not just a headache

Migraine is the 3rd most prevalent illness in the world. It’s a neurological disease that affects 1 billion people globally.

That’s 1 in 7 people, most of them women.

Quartz News talked to doctors, researchers and patients to find out why there's still so much unknown about migraine — a disease more prevalent than diabetes, epilepsy, and asthma combined — and how far have we come in treating it.

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