Edited by K.D. Rainsford

2005

There can be few drugs used to treat pain and inflammation that have came from such modest and inauspicious beginnings to be so widely accepted in the world today as the title drug for this book, nimesulide. Originally it was developed in the mid-late 1960’s by Riker Laboratories (USA) as part of a programme of drug discovery in new non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) and pesticides.