Inhibiting FLT3 signaling targets can ameliorate autoimmune disease

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

According to scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, treating autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis can be possible now with a gene pathway linked to a deadly form of leukemia offering a new hope.
It was found by the scientists that in targeting an immune system cell often ignored in favor of T-cell targets [...]

Steroids and chicken pox are a bad combination for young children

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Children being administered with steroids and exposed to the virus of chicken pox run a high risk of experiencing a more severe form of virus, as per pediatric oncologists at Brenner Children’s Hospital, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
A new research published in the October issue of Pediatrics has revealed that young children [...]

A Girl Developed A Permanent Hip Damaged Due To Steroid Treatment

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

A girl who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia had suffered total damaged on her hip joints. Kendall Rose had undergone two years of chemotherapy and steroid treatments in order to combat her illness. Unfortunately her steroid treatments had destroyed her hip joints by damaging the blood supply to the ball at the top of [...]