Anti-inflammatory drugs may lower heart attack risk, study finds

US scientists find heart attack survivors given canakinumab injections have fewer future heart attacks and lower cancer riskAnti-inflammatory injections could lower the risk of heart attacks and may slow the progression of cancer, a study has found.Heart attack survivors given injections of a targeted anti-inflammatory drug called canakinumab had fewer attacks in the future, scientists found. Cancer deaths were also halved in those treated with the drug, which is normally used only for rare infl