NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who use oral steroid medications may be at greater-than-average risk of a serious vitamin D deficiency, a new study suggests. The findings, reported in the Journal ...

Allergy and asthma flare-ups often require short, high-dose courses of oral corticosteroids for immediate symptom relief.

In patients with a sore throat that didn't require immediate antibiotics, a single capsule of the corticosteroid dexamethasone didn't increase the likelihood of complete symptom resolution after 24 ...

The oral corticosteroid can bring swift relief from pain and swelling — but its many possible side effects and longer-term safety risks often outweigh the benefits.

Michael Wechsler, MD, MMSc, explains how anti-IL-5 therapies studied in the MIRRA and MANDARA trials are reducing steroid use in EGPA. Prior studies evaluating the efficacy of biologics targeting ...

Researchers have combined computational and microbiology laboratory approaches to identify existing drugs that can be repurposed to combat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. This research has ...

Giving doses of the steroid hydrocortisone to patients with severe pneumonia cut the risk of death by about half, according to a study released Tuesday. In the study, researchers funded by the French ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed modern oncology, unleashing the immune system against tumors that once seemed untouchable. But the same biological firepower that destroys cancer cells ...

In the world of combat sports like bodybuilding and jiu-jitsu, we often hear that drugs such as anabolic steroids, growth ...

A nationwide Norwegian registry study found that inhaled corticosteroid prescriptions in children collapsed during COVID-19 lockdowns, rebounded with returning infections, and varied more than ...