Prednisone and prednisolone are similar drugs and typically treat a host of conditions, including autoimmune conditions, blood disorders, or even certain cancers. Many different kinds of drugs are ...

Nasal steroid sprays are used to treat chronic sinusitis and allergies that affect your breathing, like hay fever. They can also be used to treat snoring and nasal polyps, noncancerous growths in the ...

Various measures of abnormal left atrial (LA) structure or function (LA myopathy) are associated with a higher risk of ischemic stroke and dementia, independent of atrial fibrillation. However, ...

A spinal steroid injection—also known as an epidural injection—may only reduce neck and back pain for a few months, according to a recent review by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). Spinal ...

I really believe that one day the door will be open for us.” Sosa, 56, is one of the faces of MLB’s steroid era, a controversial time in the sport’s history. He and Mark McGwire became a ...

McGwire publicly apologized for steroid use in 2010, nine years after his retirement. He talked again about steroid use with USA TODAY Sports in 2023 on the 25-year anniversary of the home run chase.

Patients experienced significant improvement in low-back and radicular pain within 5 months following epidural steroid injection, with pain relief observed for up to 1 year. Epidural steroid ...

In the study titled "Cardiovascular Disease in Anabolic Androgenic Steroid Users," published in Circulation, researchers examined a cohort of 1,189 men who had been sanctioned for AAS use in ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) is a heterogeneous group of autoimmune ... The results showed that the DM subgroup had lower activation of the steroid hormone biosynthesis pathway, while the ...

Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) is a type of inflammatory myopathy ... shock after mild clinical improvement toward initial treatment including steroid pulse therapy/IVIg/MTX. Although the ...