As per a recently concluded study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) annual meeting, premature babies who have been administered with a “rescue course” of Antenatal Corticosteroids (ACS) steroids are likely to withstand acute ailments better than those untreated with ACS.
This study, which was supported by the Pediatrix Medical Group, also revealed that [...]
Studies have showed that adrenal insufficient patients can be weaned off rapidly out of ICU if they go for a hydrocortisone infusion before extubation.
Researchers studied 93 critically ill patients, 91.4% of the 70 with relative adrenal insufficiency who received hydrocortisone infusions were successfully weaned from a ventilator, compared with 68.8% of those who received a [...]
As per a review led by John Kirwan of Liverpool Women’s Hospital in England, low dosages of steroids can help in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis at the initial stages by restraining joint damage to a considerable extent.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic ailment under which body’s immune system attacks and destroys healthy joint tissues leading [...]
Peyronie’s disease is one of the most common causes of sexual pain in men affecting an estimate 1% of males. It shows symptoms such as the curvature or an hourglass shape of the penis when it is erect. This curvature results from the plaque and scar tissue build-up on top of the penis.
From Health:
Some cases [...]
As per a study by Roger Tobin, a Tufts University physicist, the use of steroids by a baseball slugger offers an ability to boost home run production by 50 percent or more. However, there are only modest enhancements in bat-and-ball speed and muscle mass by such usage.
Tobin, who is currently working as a specialist in [...]
Most doctors are trying to manage the health conditions of their patients who are taking steroid drugs by administering the treatment over short period of time. This predicament is due to the possible side effects that may develop from prolonged use of steroids.
From WebMD:
It has been half a century since glucocorticoids were first prescribed. Now [...]
Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia can now feel better when their stress cortisol level is stimulated with low doses of hydrocortisone. Based on the study of Dr. Kent Holtorf, most patients with severe CFS and fibromyalgia have low levels of the steroid hormone cortisol due to dysfunction in the brain system called [...]
General Practioners are encouraged to initially discuss the potential risks of inhaled-steroids to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD patients. This is in relation to the recent study which directly links inhaled corticosteroids to pneumonia, osteoporosis and adrenal suppression.
According to Dr John Haughney of the General Practice Airways Group, GPs should explain the potential risks [...]
Chemists have designed this new steroid desoxymethyltestosterone (DMT), which is the third after norbolethone and tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), which were identified in 2002 and 2003, respectively, by chemists at the Olympic Analytical Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles. The discovery of DMT was announced in a conference call by the Montreal lab.
DMT was synthesized [...]
After the research of a team on the power lifters the athletes had given up use of steroids. It was reported that while physical trace of drug was no longer remaining in the blood stream but the changes in the shoulders and quadriceps still gave lifters an advantage. As reported by science daily, Power lifting [...]