The Oldie

The cost of living painlessly

I hesitate once again to bring my own case before the public, but I do so for purely educational purposes. Besides, who is not interested in his own case?

For the last several months, I have suffered from a condition called polymyalgia rheumatica, which has a lifetime prevalence of more than two per cent among women and one per cent among men. It afflicts

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