Even today treatment focuses on stabilizing the patient to prevent damage from spreading, with surgery to decompress the spine and steroids to prevent inflammation and protect remaining neurons.

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Because Bute and other NSAIDs prevent the development of inflammation if provided before before difficult training is undertaken (like the weekend warrior who takes Advil before his tennis match), it helps to prevent injury from inflammation in the first place.

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Delivering DMSO directly to your bladder may reduce inflammation and possibly prevent muscle contractions that cause frequency, urgency and pain.

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The DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) results and other recent studies suggest that an old class of asthma drugs called leukotriene blockers might prevent heart attacks by reducing inflammation of the arteries.

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Drugs to raise good cholesterol to clear arteries, to prevent cholesterol from sticking to the artery wall and to decrease inflammation in the arteries have all failed.

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In his JAMA commentary, Nissen writes that Pfizer's drug may help prevent heart attacks not only by lowering bad cholesterol but also by cutting another heart attack risk: inflammation in the arteries.

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Osiris Therapeutics of Baltimore has several trials under way using adult stem cells to treat the intestinal inflammation known as Crohn's disease, repair damaged tissue following a heart attack and prevent the progression of arthritis.

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