Current drugs can slow the disease but eventually lose their effectiveness.

These drugs can slow or stop progression of joint damage.

Several believe that the drugs have slowed the steady death toll already.

Alcohol and drugs can slow or prevent recovery from depression.

It is uncertain whether any drugs on the market slow the course of the virus.

Early results in patients indicate that the drugs may slow human cancers.

The drug slows the progress of the disease, but it is not a complete cure.

Some drugs can slow the progression of advanced prostate cancer.

But the new drugs may slow, perhaps even prevent, the progression that was once considered inevitable for many patients.

In an earlier trial, whose results were presented today, the drug slowed vision loss compared to a placebo after one year.