Theodore Phillips , director of the multiple sclerosis center at Baylor University Medical Center.

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"Curcumin, no matter how we measured it, was either comparable to sodium diclofenac or slightly better, " says co-author Ajay Goel, director of the Department of Epigenetics and Cancer Research at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.

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Other trial sites along with the University of Maryland Medical Center are Baylor College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Emory University, Saint Louis University, Seattle Group Health Cooperative, the University of Iowa, and Vanderbilt University.

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