Subscribe to our newsletter. An arsenal of anti-inflammatory drugs has been used to treat arthritis for many years. Current and ongoing research is striving to develop more effective and safer drugs.
Scientists are about to make a breakthrough with a whole new class of arthritis drugs.
Pain, redness, heat, and swelling, which are the markers of inflammation, follow the release of prostaglandins. They have been hugely popular because until now they were considered the best alternative to higher risk immunosuppressant therapies used to treat disabling forms of arthritis. Currently, a number of powerful drugs are in clinical testing. So far more than ten thousand people have tried it and none have experienced any side effects. From his research he hypothesized there were two kinds of COX enzyme.