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FROM DENIAL TO SUPPORT: One Writer’s Story by Philip S. Donlay

I walked out of the doctor’s office stunned, armed with several brochures and a million questions. I’d just been informed that I was HLA-B27 positive. This genetic discovery, coupled with the x-rays taken of my spine three weeks earlier, left the doctor little doubt that my pain and suffering was due to a disease, ankylosing spondylitis.

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Spondylitis Association of America (SAA) Launches Public Service Announcements to Hasten Arthritis Diagnosis

Van Nuys, July 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a crippling form of arthritis that generally strikes young people in their teens and twenties, sometimes even earlier.

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