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News items on 'Chronic Juvenile Arthritis'
I got a hip for my 18th birthday
(Daily Express 25/08/2009)
Dan has juvenile arthritis, a painful and debilitating joint disease that can permanently damage cartilage and bone, leading to long-term disability. Although arthritis is usually thought of as a disease of the elderly, juvenile arthritis affects 27,000 under 25s in the UK %u2013 about one in a thousand young people. Children usually develop symptoms of arthritis between the ages of two and six, with another peak after the age of 10.
It makes me sick: Actress Lysette Anthony falls foul of parking wardens while visiting son in hospital
(Daily Mail 05/10/2008)
Actress Lysette Anthony's son was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis - a childhood form of the disease that causes swelling in sufferers' joints, making their limbs seize up so they struggle to walk - he was having steroids injected into his ankles to make them stronger... "Arriving back at our car - A traffic warden...was putting a parking ticket on our windscreen."
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