We still use the old medicines here, like our ancestors did.

Yet even after it began selling the new product, the company kept making the old medicine for several months more.

Even so, Cutter knew the market for the older medicine had all but dried up.

And the old and new medicines have similar side effects.

None of the drugs cure pain any better than older medicines.

"Celebrex still has some significant benefits over the older medicines," she said.

Both appear to have fewer severe side effects than older medicines.

But this is a case where the old medicine may still work.

I'm one-hundred-twelve years old and modern medicine has run out of miracles for me.

Neither drug alleviated pain any better than the older medicines.