Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as immunomodulatory agents

I was delighted to see the BMJ Therapeutics series covering non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents—a class of drugs that has perhaps been unfairly maligned and shunned recently.1 Although the article focused on the use of these drugs as analgesics, they can be used as immunomodulatory agents. Clinicians commonly associate prostaglandins, the predominant downstream product of cyclo-oxygenase action on …