doxycycline for OSTEOarthritis

October 2005

There's new interest in doxycycline for OSTEOarthritis.

Minocycline is sometimes used to decrease joint pain and inflammation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Now some evidence suggests that doxycycline can slow the progression of knee osteoarthritis (OA).

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