Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American Medical Association. In one study, researchers compared Celebrex, one of the so-called COX-II inhibitors (they attack an enzyme, COX-II, that promotes inflammation) to naproxen, a commonly used NSAID. Both reduced the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. But while 26% of the naproxen patients got an ulcer in either the stomach or the small intestine, ulcers struck only 4% to 6% of those taking Celebrex...
...think her body can keep up," says her father Ron. This was literally true for fellow Pegasite Amy Cook, who edits the school newspaper, has a 4.08 GPA and works 12 hours a week at a nursing home. By the middle of last year she was developing an ulcer that her doctor attributed to school stress. ("The doctor told us, 'Congratulations, I think you've got a budding college professor on your hands,'" recalls her father.) Now taking medicine for her stomach, Amy has scaled back on some activities and traded in her daily three cups of coffee...
...weeks over 15 months. Cruise, Hollywood's $20 million man, took himself out of the game at the height of his career, accepted a sizable pay cut, moved his family to England, put himself through workdays that ran 12 to 16 hours and, in the process, developed an ulcer...
...were moments when they wondered what they'd got themselves into. Says Kidman: "Sometimes it was very frustrating because you were thinking: 'Is this ever going to end?'" The long shoot, and its subject matter, eventually took a toll physically on Cruise. He is reluctant to talk about his ulcer, fearing the inevitable headlines--KUBRICK GIVES CRUISE AN ULCER!--but confides that he woke up one night early in the production in terrible pain. "I didn't want to tell Stanley. He panicked. I wanted this to work, but you're playing with dynamite when you act. Emotions kick...
...pleased to report, married at the tender age of 19. The groom, we are cryptically told, is a "fellow classmate." (Katya is a history major at Moscow State, although she has been on "academic leave.") Kremlin handlers are willing to discuss the particulars of the President's bleeding ulcer, but Katya's nuptials--which, given her grandpa's state, looked a bit rushed--are strictly off limits. Reports in the Russian media, however, indicated that Grandpa (who turns 68 this week) was "extremely sad" not to be there. Yeltsin did give his blessing and a bouquet to the newlyweds--when...