Children with Crohn’s disease get remission with nutrient cocktail
Children are not as responsive to steroid medications as adults when it comes to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) due to associated side effects.
Dr. Raanan Shamir of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine and Schneider Children’s Medical Centre remarked that a nutritional formula based on the lines of diet of astronauts may prove effective for [...]
Relief on its way for multiple myeloma sufferers
Steroid pill treatment can be an effectual treatment option for providing significant relief to multiple myeloma sufferers in the form of improved overall survival rate.
James Berenson, M.D., lead author of the Southwest Oncology Group sponsored study and Director of the Multiple Myeloma and Bone Metastasis Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, noted that Prednisone use in [...]
Effects of early steroid withdrawal analyzed
According to a study, patients may experience an increased incidence of rejection and reduced incidence of glucose intolerance necessitating treatment for diabetes when steroids are withdrawn at an early stage.
The study was published in an issue of Liver Transplantation, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the [...]
Rejection incidence can increase due to early steroid withdrawal
Increased rejection incidence and reduced glucose intolerance incidence may be experienced after early steroid withdrawal suggesting an urgent need for the treatment of diabetes, as per a study on early steroid withdrawal following liver transplantation.
The results of this study appeared in an issue of Liver Transplantation, the official journal of the American Association for the [...]
Women with increased DHEAs have improved cognitive function
Women with increased DHEAs have better cognitive function than their counterparts with lower DHEAs, as per a study appearing in an issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).
The study revealed that cognitively intact women with higher circulating levels of DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), in the form of DHEA sulfate (DHEAS), are likely to fare [...]
Antagonistic genes control rice growth
A plant steroid prompts two genes to battle against each other - one suppresses the other to ensure that leaves are grown in a normal manner in rice and the experimental plant Arabidopsis thaliana, which is a relative of mustard, as per scientists at the Carnegie Institution.
The results appeared in the December 15, 2009, issue [...]
Absence of standardized approach for back pain
There are no standardized practices for administering an epidural steroid injection for back pain. This finding was noted by researchers from the University of California at San Diego and reported at the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s 25th Annual Meeting.
The team of researchers examined many factors such as which all steroids were administered, amount of [...]
Steroid-enriched dietary supplements can increase health risks
Researchers at the Henry Ford Hospital have reported that there have been three cases of patients suffering from the adverse affects of steroid-enriched dietary supplements.
The incidences of steroid-enriched dietary supplements have come up in large numbers in the last few days, a fact that has given sleepless nights to anti-doping and government officials.
From News-Medical.Net:
The cases [...]
Yankees Camp jubilant after winning stadium record battle
John Egan Jr., the State Supreme Court Justice, has recently quashed a subpoena requesting access to thousands of document pages related to the new $1.5 billion stadium by Assemblyman Richard Brodsky.
It was remarked that subpoenas should not be used as fishing expeditions.
The Yankees camp got engaged into celebrations after the verdict, a much-awaited relief after [...]
Corticosteroids can change the way pneumonia patients are treated
Traditional therapy when combined with corticosteroids can prove to be an effective option and change the way pneumonia patients are treated, as per scientists at the UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Researchers showed that antibiotics and corticosteroids can prove their combined worth by providing great relief to pneumonia patients as was evident in a study available online [...]
