COPD has a large economic impact on the healthcare system and a destructive impact on the lives of patients and their ...

Taking steroids in tablet or syrup form (by mouth) may have little or no impact on hearing and quality of life for children with glue ear. Steroids may reduce the number of children who have glue ear ...

Studies with steroids given either locally, as a single dose, or in crossover studies were excluded. Data sources Literature search using MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews ...

Objectives: To assess the efficacy and safety of steroid injections for patients with tendonitis of the shoulder or elbow. Methods: A systematic review of the literature using PubMed, EMBASE, the ...

Sly Stone died after a prolonged battle with COPD, a lung condition that can be debilitating. Here's what doctors want you to ...

vMember of the German Center for Lung Research and Cardiopulmonary Institute, and Agaplesion Lung Clinic Waldhof-Elgershausen, Greifenstein, Germany Study group members are listed in appendix.

Kolkata: The elderly with comorbidities, and children, especially those who suffered an adenovirus infection over the last ...

Long term use of steroids has associations with adverse events and could reduce the effectiveness of immunotherapy. However, insufficient duration risks treatment failure. Fujimoto and colleagues ...

CONCLUSIONS: In patients with moderate-to-severe eosinophilic bronchitis, treatment with prednisone caused a significant reduction in sputum eosinophil counts, as well as in the sputum levels of IL-5 ...

State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China ...

The authors accept full responsibility for the contents of this manuscript. Timothy E Albertson is on the Speakers Bureaus for BI and GSK (COPD), Schering Plough (AECB) and has funded research ...

Treatment is generally done to control symptoms. It also helps improve the function of organs affected by the disease. Steroid medicine, such as prednisone, helps reduce inflammation. It's often taken ...