Transdermal and Intravaginal Steroid Contraceptives

Gastrointestinal Effects

RPL554

Verona’s lead drug, RPL554, is a dual phosphodiesterase (PDE) 3 and 4 inhibitor being developed as a novel treatment for chronic obstructive airways disease as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmon...

Management of Adverse Effects

Adverse drug effects

A Novel Glucocorticoid Receptor Cofactor for Use as an Adjunct to Steroid-Based Therapies

Methods of using STAMP (SRC-1 and TIF-2 Associated Modulatory Protein) polypeptides for modulating steroid or nuclear receptor activity, alone or in combination with a steroid or nuclear receptor modu...

Corticorelin acetate has steroid-sparing effect in brain cancer

(HealthDay)—Corticorelin acetate (CrA) administration to patients with peritumoral brain edema (PBE) allows the reduction of steroid doses and is associated with reduced incidence and severity of st...

Jose Canseco: Are Steroids Worth the Money - Side Effects and the Media

HOUSTON, Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In his latest video series with the industry leading, Steroid.com, Jose Canseco dives into three important topics guaranteed to ruffle feathers. Episod...

Recalled steroid in outbreak went to 23 states

The steroid medication suspected in an outbreak of a rare kind of meningitis was shipped to 23 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The specialty pharmacy that made the...

Hatch Proposes Tougher Penalties For Steroid-Spiked Supplements

Industry trade groups back the Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2012, which would create stiffer penalties for firms that taint supplements with anabolic steroids and strengthen DEA’s abilit...

Jose Canseco to Host Video Blog on Steroid.com

HOUSTON, Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Baseball great, Jose Canseco, signs with Steroid.com as the host of a new video blog, "Canseco on Steroids". The videos will be posted twice a week and...

Extending steroid treatment does not benefit children with hard-to-treat kidney disease

Extending steroid treatment for the most common form of kidney disease in children provides no benefit for preventing relapses or side effects, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of t...

Extending steroid treatment does not benefit children with hard-to-treat kidney disease, study finds

Extending steroid treatment for the most common form of kidney disease in children provides no benefit for preventing relapses or side effects, according to a new study. The findings challenge previou...

Porcine testicular extract inhibits T cell proliferation by blocking cell cycle transition from G(1) phase to S phase.

Since T cells express diverse sex steroid hormone receptors, they might be a good model to evaluate the effects of sex steroid hormones on immune modulation. Porcine testicular extract contains severa...

Dose-sensitive steroid-induced hyperglycaemia.

Steroids cause significant but under-appreciated and poorly managed glucose intolerance. In this case we describe a patient with steroid-induced hyperglycaemia who obtained a large positive impact on...

Comparative study of the effect of a daily steroid regimen versus a weekly oral pulse steroid regimen on morphological changes, blood sugar, bone mineral density and suprarenal gland activity.

Abstract Background: The most serious side effects of systemic steroids include osteoporosis and suprarenal suppression. Many steroid regimens have been suggested to minimize these side effects; one o...

Early identification of steroid dependency in Japanese children with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome undergoing short-term initial steroid therapy.

Early steroid withdrawal in pediatric renal transplant: five years of follow-up.

This prospective, comparative trial investigated the impact on mean change in height standard deviation score (SDS), acute rejection rate, and renal function of early steroid withdrawal in 96 recipien...