Treatment often includes inhaled corticosteroids, to reduce inflammation, and long- and short-acting beta agonists like albuterol, to relax airway muscles.
Delivering DMSO directly to your bladder may reduce inflammation and possibly prevent muscle contractions that cause frequency, urgency and pain.
D-4F also seems to reduce inflammation in the arteries, which many doctors believe is as big a risk factor as cholesterol itself.
Steroids were used in the 1970s to reduce inflammation, but they helped only 20% of patients and caused mood swings and weight gain.
AstraZeneca has tied up with biotech boutique Atherogenics on a pill to reduce inflammation in the arteries, another way of cutting the risk of heart attacks.
Tofu is a good option since its omega-3 fatty acids help regenerate new skin cells and reduce inflammation, while its soy protein has been shown to boost collagen.
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Finally, omega-3 fatty acids, which have been shown to reduce inflammation (mainly pertaining to heart risk) by suppressing the inflammatory markers, have also been shown to help treat depression.
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Experts believe that natural compounds known as flavonoids (or flavonols), which appear to promote artery health and reduce inflammation, are responsible for the cardiovascular benefits that have been associated with chocolate consumption.
Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca and others are testing drugs that would reduce inflammation indirectly by raising the "good" HDL cholesterol that helps the body pump fat out of the arteries.
Even before the results of the study, dubbed ProACTIVE, it had been shown to reduce inflammation in the arteries, which some experts believe could be more important than cholesterol in causing heart attacks.
AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) has tied up with biotech boutique Atherogenics (nasdaq: AGIX - news - people ) on a pill to reduce inflammation in the arteries, another way of cutting the risk of heart attacks.
Right now, Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ) and Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) rule the arthritis market with Celebrex and Vioxx, which reduce inflammation without causing side effects like ulcers in the stomach or intestine.
Moreover, drug firms are testing numerous other approaches to reduce artery inflammation that may prove more effective.
Brodeur took some medications to reduce the inflammation and stayed off the ice.
The standard treatment for inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's and ulcerative colitis is through steroids, which help reduce the inflammation.
The most promising: a pill called a CETP inhibitor, which raises good cholesterol and may reduce cardiac inflammation and heart disease.
On Sept. 27, AtheroGenics released what it said was positive data for its heart drug, AGI-1067, the first pill designed to reduce artery inflammation.
The mechanism is unclear, but cooling may help reduce brain inflammation.
It also appears to reduce artery inflammation in some circumstances.
Why: Inhaled corticosteroids reduce airway inflammation long-term.
Ultimately, cardiologists hope to create a powerful new triple-threat cocktail combining today's statin drugs for lowering bad cholesterol (like Lipitor) with new compounds to boost good cholesterol and other drugs that would directly reduce vessel-wall inflammation.
Sharing a bed may also reduce cytokines, involved in inflammation, and boost oxytocin, the so-called love hormone that is known to ease anxiety and is produced in the same part of the brain responsible for the sleep-wake cycle.
Settling this debate once and for all will require large human trials to prove that lowering inflammation with a drug will reduce the frequency of heart attacks beyond what can be accomplished with existing classes of drugs (see: " Inflammation Is Key In Heart Attacks").
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