Muscle cream caused NYC teen's death

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Muscle cream caused NYC teen's death

Sat Jun 9, 7:07 PM ET

A medical examiner blamed a 17-year-old track star's death on the use

of too much anti-inflammatory muscle cream, the kind used to soothe

aching legs after exercise.

Arielle Newman, a cross-country runner at Notre Dame Academy on Staten

Island, died after her body absorbed high levels of methyl salicylate,

an anti-inflammatory found in sports creams such as Bengay and Icy

Hot, the New York City medical examiner said Friday.

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