Browsing: corticosteroids

“When your whole body is a giant toothache, nothing fixes it,” observes Charley Pavlosky, 65, recalling the systemic pain that…

Sufferers of celiac disease know all too well the common symptoms of severe nausea, diarrhea, gas, bloating and fatigue that…

There is no cure for COPD and no way to reverse the damage to the lungs, but there are medicines, therapies and lifestyle changes that can treat it and slow the progress of the disease. 

Eczema, also known as dermatitis, is a condition that causes red, inflamed, itchy rashes, and blistered, cracked patches of skin.…

If you visit the doctor from time to time for anything other than a routine checkup, it’s likely that at…

Researchers have discovered that oral corticosteroids, in both the long and short term, may cause serious adverse effects. And for…

A group of important studies, most could save your life. But the one I like best is last, opitmism will…

Find out the signs of antibiotic allergies and what to do about them.

An op-ed by Katherine Eban in The New York Times exposes the FDA’s lax regulatory oversight of generic drug manufacturing.…

All medicines come with side effects, some good, some bad. The corticosteroid prednisone is no exception. Prednisone has life-saving anti-inflammatory…