DR. FRED SHEFTELL. He's founder and co-director of the New England Center for Headache and National President for the American Council on Headache Education. In "Headache Relief" (Simon & Schuster), which SHEFTELL co-authors with Alan Rapoport, the authors argue that chronic headache sufferers have suffered further from the stigma that they brought it on themselves and that headaches are not a genuine illness. "Unlike the pain of ulcers or colitis, the pain caused by a headache has no easily visible source. This relects more on the state of medical knowledge than on the reality of the condition." FOR LISTENERS' INFO: The American Council on Headache Education is 875 King's Highway, Suite 200, Woodbury, N.J. 08096; phone: 1-800-255-ACHE.
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