There's a sound so frequent and familiar in my home, I know it like I know the click of a key in the front door. It's the low squeak of the opening of the medicine cabinet, followed by the rattle of a jumbo sized bottle of pills. A few times a week, at least one person in my house has got a headache. Do you, too, have a headache right this minute, even as you read these words? Odds are good that you do.
In April, a narrative review from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and published in The Journal of Headache and Pain revealed that each and every day "15.8% of the world's population had headache, and almost half of those individuals report a migraine (7%)." The Australian Standard starkly notes, "that means 1.1 billion people have a headache today." And as the study's lead author, Lars Jacob Stovner, said in a news release, "the prevalence of headache disorders remains high worldwide, and the burden of different types may impact many."
