According to a finding that will be disclosed by a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), treatment with steroids can delay or prevent loss of kidney function in individuals with IgA nephropathy, a type of kidney disease.
The list of study co-authors included Simeone Andrulli, Lucia [...]
There is an urgent need for rethinking how addiction agencies and doctors support minority groups as per a Home Office-funded report. This call was made after it was found that gay men and lesbians are far more likely to put their health at risk from drug misuse than the heterosexuals.
Health officials were suggested [...]
According to a study led by Mayo Clinic, the combination of biologic therapy with immune-suppressing drugs as against use of immune-suppressing drugs alone could be more than useful to suggest remission from Crohn’s disease in an improved manner.
It was remarked by William Sandborn, M.D., gastroenterologist and vice chair of the Division [...]
The about-to-come 600th home run by Alex Rodriguez, popularly known as A-Rod, will not be devalued by his admission about use of steroids in the past according to some baseball fans and sluggers.
Rodriguez’s image is not tarnished like a Barry Bonds, as per Arlan Ettinger, President of Guernsey’s auction house.
Brandon Steiner, head of Steiner Sports [...]
According to a finding disclosed by a research published in the journal Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, a new technique for preventing incidents of doping in sports has been identified.
This technique was developed by scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Nottingham and can help anti-doping officials ascertain cheating in sports.
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The combination of steroids and antibiotics is better than the use of antibiotics alone for providing relief to patients suffering from pneumonia, according to a team of researchers from the UT Southwestern Medical Center.
This study disclosed that the combination can prove its worth by restoring health of patients with pneumonia.
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According to a research by scientists at the University of Bristol and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA, intermittent signaling by steroid hormones has an influence on the manner in which genes are expressed in rodents.
The research appeared online and was published in the September 2009 issue of Nature Cell Biology.
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Children and adults with asthma can exercise better control over the disease activity when treated with inhaled corticosteroids than with cromolyn, according to a study conducted by James Guevara, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues.
During comparisons made between inhaled corticosteroids and cromolyn, the researchers were able to [...]
More and more people are making use of anabolic steroids such as Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) in order to enhance performance and build solid muscles.
According to a study, as many as 9 percent of bodybuilders visiting gymnasiums in the United Kingdom are making use of steroids to improve the quality of muscles and [...]
Around 37 million people in the United States alone are afflicted with sinusitis and most of them also suffer from asthma, which is an inflammatory disease of the lungs characterized by reversible airway obstruction.
In order to identify variations in sinusitis symptoms experienced by asthmatics versus non-asthmatics, a study was conducted and authors of “The Incidence [...]