Steroids can facilitate sore throat pain management

According to a Mayo Clinic study published in an edition of Laryngoscope, a single 10 mg dose of the steroid dexamethasone could be useful in terms of efficiency, safety, and affordability in relation to treatment of bacterial or viral pharyngitis (sore throat).
In a study that involved 118 patients, it was reported that patients administered with [...]

Steroid era will make things tough, says Andre Dawson

Andre Dawson recently said that the steroid era will be making things difficult for the writers and expected concerns that players from the 70’s and 80’s are now being viewed differently by the voters in light of the steroid era.
Dawson will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame shortly.
From NYdailynews.com:

“The writers have [...]

Complications of bone a result of genetic reasons

Bone complications accompanying cystic fibrosis can be attributed to genetic reasons, according to Dr Christina Haston, a researcher of the McGill University Health Centre research Institute.
The study revealed that bone fragility could be credited to genetics, a finding that is expected to have implications for alteration of therapeutic practices.
From Sciencedaily.com:

The medical community generally [...]

Use of steroids can be recommended for treating diabetic retinopathy

Progression of proliferative diabetic retinopathy can be slowed down to a considerable extent by administration of Triamcinolone, a corticosteroid (steroid) in injectable form. Diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes leading to vision loss or blindness.
Neil M. Bressler, the James P. Gills Professor of Ophthalmology and chief of the Retina Division of the Johns [...]

Myeloma patients benefit from steroids

Patients treated for multiple myeloma, a fatal form of cancer, could experience dramatically improved results when administered with a combination of lenalidomide and low-dose dexamethasone therapy and not a combination of lenalidomide plus high-dose dexamethasone.
This finding was disclosed in results of Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Phase III clinical trial E4A03 for multiple myeloma and was [...]

Canseco to be the wild card in investigations

The former trainer of Roger Clemens, Brian McNamee, remarked that the baseball career of Clemens was marked by a June 1998 barbeque at Jose Canseco’s house when he plunged deeper into use of steroids.
It is worth noting here that Canseco has been maintaining that Clemens did not attended the shindig at his [...]

Psoriasis Advocacy Group advocates status change for topical steroids

Two Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committees have been urged by a nonprofit patient advocacy group, Psoriasis Cure Now, for approving OTC use of certain topical steroids that presently need a prescription.
As many as 6.5 million American who are afflicted with psoriasis are beneficiaries of topical corticosteroids and over-the-counter status of [...]

Damage to heart likely with anabolic steroids

Long term use of anabolic steroids can lead to weakening of the heart and this damage could be more than considered previously, according to a research reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal that also revealed that use of steroids could also lead to heart failure.
Aaron L. Baggish, [...]

Reni Maitua tested positive to clenbuterol

Reni Maitua will now not be able to avoid a ban of two years after he was informed of the result of the return test that was also positive to a prohibited substance, Clenbuterol.
Maitua has expressed his desire to continue playing. It is worth noting here that Clenbuterol is not a steroid but [...]

Humans and invertebrates experience different steroid hormone results

Enzymes that are needed for synthesis of protein behave differently in snails, insects, corals, and octopuses when compared to humans, according to a team of French and American scientists, including Michael E. Baker, PhD, professor in UC San Diego’s Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology-Hypertension.
It is believed that this finding will have implications [...]