Reducing steroid exposure as soon as inflammation is adequately controlled may be a viable option for certain patients with KD.

Although osteoarthritis is a very common cause of back and knee pain, oral steroids like methylprednisolone are not an appropriate treatment for osteoarthritis or occasional flares, especially ...

Doctors may recommend oral or infused steroid therapy for severe multiple sclerosis flare-ups that impact your functioning. Treatment with steroids can cause side effects. If you have multiple ...

The Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) has rejected an application of Mumbai-based Neon Laboratories to review the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority's (NPPA) ceiling price fixation for ...

The most common MS flare treatment is 1 gram of intravenous (IV) methylprednisolone (Solu-Medrol) daily for 3 to 5 days. It’s a liquid steroid that’s slowly dripped into your vein through a ...

Other oral steroids sometimes prescribed for back pain include methylprednisolone (Medrol) and dexamethasone (Maxidex, Ozurdex, DexPak). An injectable form of dexamethasone (Decadron) is also used ...

Adding low-dose methylprednisolone therapy to endovascular ... survival benefit with a shift toward moderate disability in the steroid group, but said it is unclear why there was not a favorable ...

Using a markedly reduced dose of intravenous (IV) methylprednisolone with a lower ... cohort had a higher number of severe infections, steroid-induced diabetes, and weight gain, according to ...

Using a rodent model, the team found that even a relatively short course of prescribed steroids - methylprednisolone for five days – led to impaired memory performance when carrying out a memory and ...

Using a rodent model, the team found that even a relatively short course of prescribed steroids—methylprednisolone for five days—led to impaired memory performance when carrying out a memory ...