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Arthritis: What It Is, Why You Get It, and How to Stop the Pain: Twenty-one million Americans suffer from this potentially crippling disease and account for 7 million doctor visits each year. Yet with new warnings out about the best available pain relief, treating it is more complicated than ever.(Society)(warnings about Celebrex and Vioxx medications)
They are the chorus line of the evening news, the pinups of Modern Maturity: senior citizens in perpetual motion, heedless of arthritic knees, hips and shoulders, dancing, jogging and bicycling their way through a world populated exclusively by gleeful grandparents and adoring toddlers. They are, of course, fictitious. Bee Jay Janiga, 73, is a real person with arthritis and, like the ones in the commercials, she takes one of the new class of drugs known as Cox-2 inhibitors. She dances, too--in fact, she's been a professional since she began performing at the age of 14, and she still leads a touring dance troupe, the Racquettes (minimum age: 50).
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