Counter-irritants, which increase inflammation, only hinder the formation of bone and can actually prolong the healing process.

Also, there have been no studies indicating that early detection of prostate cancer actually prolongs life.

But the pedestrian physiologists invented a drug which preserved the poor wage-slaves in something like physical health, and actually prolonged their life.

Marion was actually prolonging the narrative that accompanied each picture.

Many alternative therapies hold that suppressing the symptoms of the flu may actually prolong the illness.

But the company must then do a larger, controlled trial to show that the drug actually prolongs lives.

The crash actually prolonged the expansion and by last spring we had a boom.

A second concern is that for some common cancers, it is not clear that early detection and treatment actually prolong patients' lives.

They are addicting, and some actually prolong the cycle of headaches.