Cambridge, Massachusetts–(ENEWSPF)–September 2, 2011. About 27 million Americans suffer from arthritis, and more than three million of those cases result from a joint injury, often in the knee, that provokes slow and steady cartilage deterioration.
A new study from MIT suggests that a steroid drug currently used to treat inflammatory diseases could also prevent osteoarthritis from ever developing in those people, if given soon after the injury.
“In essence, it’s repurposing an existing drug,” says…
