Dementia

Dementia describes a range of symptoms of cognitive decline. For example memory loss, problems with reasoning and communication skills, and a reduction in a person's abilities and skills in carr...

Transdermal and Intravaginal Steroid Contraceptives

Delirium and Dementia

Frontotemporal Dementia

HIVAssociated Dementia

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...

Attitude towards age increases risk of dementia diagnosis

Our attitude towards our age has a massive impact on the likelihood of being diagnosed with dementia. New research shows that when seniors see themselves as 'older' their performance on a standard dem...

Dementia Friends information sessions launched

People in England are now able to sign up to sessions to become a Dementia Friend. More than 12,000 people have already registered their interest in becoming Dementia Friends and they can now att...

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...

Attitude towards age increases risk of dementia diagnosis, study suggests

Our attitude towards our age has a massive impact on the likelihood of being diagnosed with dementia, new research suggests. New research shows that when seniors see themselves as 'older' their perfor...

'Dementia Village' at Healthcare Innovation Expo

A major dementia event is being hosted by the Department of Health in London on March 13 and 14. It will take place at the Healthcare Innovation Expo at ExCeL where a dedicated area of the exhibi...

Steroid-responsive encephalopathy subsequently associated with Alzheimer disease pathology: A case series.

Background: Steroid-responsive encephalopathies can be considered vasculitic or non-vasculitic. Clinicopathological studies of non-vasculitic steroid-responsive encephalopathy are unusual, but can exp...

GLCCI1 single nucleotide polymorphisms in pediatric nephrotic syndrome.

BACKGROUND: Empiric steroid therapy is the first-line therapy for pediatric nephrotic syndrome, but treatment response is variable. There are few predictors of steroid-responsiveness, although evidenc...

Unexplained severe acute kidney injury with rapid recovery of kidney function 11 months later after the start of high-dose steroid therapy.

Our patient appears to represent a previously unrecognized variant of steroid-responsive minimal change disease (MCD)/focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) in which severe AKI developed even t...

Depression and risk of developing dementia.

Depression is highly common throughout the life course and dementia is common in late life. Depression has been linked with dementia, and growing evidence implies that the timing of depression may be...

Cross talk between epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor and extra nuclear steroid receptors in cell lines.

Steroid receptors act as ligand-dependent transcriptional factors. It has been observed that in addition to responding to cognate hormones with transcription activation, once hormone bound they are al...