New treatment approaches for patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis

Clinical practice is expected to get benefited on how to treat patients with severe or acute alcoholic hepatitis, from results of two recently presented French studies at the International Liver CongressTM 2010 press conference.
The results were presented by Professor Philippe Mathurin from the Hôpital Huriez, CHRU Lille, France.
From Esciencenews.com:

Acute alcoholic hepatitis (AAH) however, is an [...]

Youngsters making use of brain steroids

Medical practitioners and parents are severely criticizing the lifestyle followed by some high school and undergraduate students to make use brain steroids or neuro enhancers for staying ahead of the rest at educational and sport levels.
The main aim of steroid abuse by youth of today is to do whatever it takes to sustain [...]

Young Men Population and Anabolic steroids

According to a recently concluded survey by a drug charity, young men of today are increasingly turning to anabolic steroids to enhance their looks and self-confidence.
Steroids are now becoming popular among young men between the ages of 16 and 25, as per DrugScope. The popularity of steroids has extended beyond their use for improving performance [...]

Use of steroids lead to reduced altered signaling and serotonin

More than one in ten boys have been admitting the use of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs over the last decade, a fact that has been of great concern for parents and researchers. The fact that physiological and neurological effects in the long term associated with such use have not been fully [...]

Use of anabolic steroids triggers aggression in long term

The use of anabolic steroids can possibly have long-term effects on aggression and behavior much after the abuse of these performance enhancing drugs has been stopped, according to Northeastern University psychology professor Richard Melloni.
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of the world’s foremost medical research centers.
From Sciencedaily.com:

The researchers initially [...]

Jim Thome to join A-Rod in 600 home run club

Jim Thome of the Minnesota Twins is all set to join Alex Rodriguez in the 600 home run club with 577 career homers till now.
However, his contributions were and will be possibly subdued by baseball sluggers relying on anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs to make a name in the world of baseball and Baseball [...]

Use of steroids among teen and sports

Steroid use in teens and unhealthy weight control behaviors are commonly linked with sport participation where real or perceived weight specifications matter, as per researchers at the University of Minnesota.
Anabolic androgenic steroids that are synthetic derivatives of testosterone, the male hormone, are in great demand among professional sportsmen in order to [...]

Potential treatment for bone death identified

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a potential treatment for osteonecrosis or death of bone tissue.
The complication is noticed in individuals administered with steroids for multiple medical conditions and there is no treatment option presently for dealing with the debilitating disease.
From Sciencedaily.com:

Glucocorticoids cause reduced blood flow to bone cells in the [...]

Use of steroids useful to minimize Lymphoma risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis patients

Treatment involving oral steroids for a period of two years or more could be used to minimize the risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) related lymphoma, as per data presented at EULAR 2007, the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology, in Barcelona, Spain.
It was reported that benefits of steroids were noticed irrespective of when in the course [...]

Brain injury could be effectively handled with optimization of Progesterone

Optimization of Progesterone is presently under the testing stage by researchers for measuring the effectiveness of this hormone to treat patients suffering from traumatic brain injuries.
The finding was revealed by two abstracts highlighting Emory research on the hormone, which was presented at the 2009 Society for Neuroscience (SFN) meeting in Chicago. [...]