Coping strategies laid out for attaining relief from summer allergens

Allergy sufferers can finally have something to cheer about as springtime mountain cedars and tree pollens have generally subsided but they still cannot follow a lax approach as summertime is here.
Dr. David Khan, associate professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, remarked that limiting outdoor exposure during peak times, [...]

Tennis elbow treatment with steroids not effective

According to a new study in the BMJ, steroid injections are ineffective when it comes to treating tennis elbow. It was also suggested that a wait-and-watch approach may be the best option before recommending any medical advice or medication.
The findings of this study suggested that tennis elbow is, in most of [...]

Steroid nasal sprays can do the trick for hay fever

Management of seasonal allergies can be done better with Fluticasone propionate (Flonase), the corticosteroid nasal spray, rather than persisting with a combination of two popular anti-allergy drugs: loratidine (Claritin) and montelukast (Singulair), according to researchers from the University of Chicago.
This study was presented on March 4 at the 58th annual meeting [...]

Steroids help victims of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Corticosteroids can be effectively used to treat patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), according to a new practice guideline published in the Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
It was remarked by Richard T. Moxley III, MD, of the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y. and lead author that corticosteroids can be [...]

Triamcinolone effective for slowing down proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Direct administration of corticosteroid, Triamcinolone, in injectable form can prove to be a useful option for slowing down the progression of proliferative diabetic retinopathy. This finding was disclosed in a study by researchers led by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. The study was published in the December 2009 issue of the Archives [...]

Triamcinolone injections can curb proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Progression of proliferative diabetic retinopathy can be slowed down to a significant extent when a corticosteroid, triamcinolone, is directly injected into the eye. This finding was disclosed by researchers led by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute.
It is important to note here that proliferative diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes that usually [...]

Corticosteroids can increase atrial fibrillation risk

High doses of corticosteroids may be linked with an increased risk of atrial fibrillation, which is a heart rhythm disorder featured by irregular heartbeats.
Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common types of irregular heartbeat and affects around 4 percent of people over the age of 60 years.
From News-Medical.Net:
Corticosteroids could affect heart function through several [...]

Cerebral palsy linked with repeat steroids among premature infants

The risk of cerebral palsy may increase with repeated courses of a drug, betamethasone, used for improving the survival of unborn premature babies.
This finding was disclosed according to results from a multi-center study, funded by the National Institutes of Health and led by Ronald Wapner, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Columbia University Medical Center [...]

Rejection incidence likely to get increased in early steroid withdrawal cases

Corticosteroids effective for reducing asthma attack severity

High doses of inhaled corticosteroids are highly effective for reducing the severity and duration of asthma attacks triggered by colds, as per largest study of its kind on preschoolers
This study appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine and was led by Dr. Francine Ducharme, assistant director of clinical research at the Sainte-Justine Hospital Research [...]