If your bones ache,
it could be arthritis.

Ac Ave Living

If you're Jewish,
it could be Gaucher
Disease.

Gaucher Disease (pronounced "Go-Shay")
is the most common genetic disease
affecting Jews of Eastern and Central
European descent. One out of every 14
carries the Gaucher gene - it is far more
prevalent than Tay-Sachs. Gaucher is not
gender or age specific.

Painful Remedy

There are a few antidotes

Gaucher warning signs include:

to soaring prescription costs.

• Fatigue
• Anemia
• Bone pain
• Easily fractured bones
• Bleeding problems and
easy bruising
• Low platelet count
• Enlarged liver or spleen

RUT HAN BRODSKY
Special to the Jewish News

Fortunately, Gaucher can be detected
early with a simple test. And treatment
lets people with Gaucher live full,
productive lives. So don't wait another
minute wondering. Get the facts now.

For additional information,
testing and treatment, call toll-free:

1-800-GAUCHER

National

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n elderly woman takes half
of the prescribed tablets for
lowering her blood pres-
sure and cholesterol levels
rather than the whole tablets. This
way, the medicine lasts longer
because it costs too much to reorder
them monthly.

After paying for prescriptions, she
has little money left for rent or food.
Her doctor, believing that his
patient is taking the recommended
dosage, sees no change in her blood
pressure and cholesterol. He orders a
third prescription and increases the
dosages for the other two.
Now, the patient has to pay even
more for her medicines and is likely
to skip a day or two of taking the

.

Gaucho. Foundation

5410 Edson Lane, Suite 260
Rockville, MD 20852

www.gaucherdisease.org

© 2002, National Gauc:her Foundation

• Are you battling with your
child over food?

• Is your child sneaking food?

• Is your child gaining too
much weight?

• Do weight problems
run in your family?

The Center for

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and your child

CCWM

Center
for Childhood
Weight Management

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For more information about
classes and locations, call:

(248) 855-5112

David Efros and other pharmacists are stuck in the middle.

6/21
2002

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"Healthy Kids Are Happy Kids"