News tagged with steroid sprays


Spring into action against allergies

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It's spring allergy season, and many of you are ready to wave the white flag -- a wad of tissues, that is -- in surrender.





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New test to identify illegal steroids in cattle

Chemistry / Other

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In an effort to curb the illegal use of steroids in the European beef industry, scientists in the United Kingdom are reporting the development of a new test that can identify steroids with higher accuracy, more convenience, ...


Steroid doping tests ignore vital ethnic differences in hormone activity

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Current steroid (testosterone) doping tests should be scrapped for international sport, because they ignore vital ethnic differences in hormone activity, suggests research published ahead of print in the British Journal of ...


Toxic chemicals affect steroid hormones differently in humans and invertebrates

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a study with important consequences for studies on the effects of chemicals on steroid responses in humans, a team of French and American scientists, including Michael E. Baker, PhD, professor in UC San Diego's Department ...


Pregnant women with asthma can be more confident about some medicines

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Women can usually keep using the same asthma drugs they were using before they got pregnant. Budesonide sprays are the best studied and can be regarded as safe. More trials of other essential medicines are necessary however.


Study shows steroid therapies following transplant can be eliminated

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study by researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) shows that using modern immunosuppressive drugs eliminates the need for steroid therapy as early as seven days following a transplant surgery while still maintaining ...


Adding steroid drug to MS treatment may reduce disease activity

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Using a steroid drug for multiple sclerosis (MS) in addition to an MS drug may reduce the amount of disease activity more than using the MS drug alone, according to a study that will be presented as part of the Late-breaking ...


Cells that mediate steroid-resistant asthma identified by scientists at Children's Hospital

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 19, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC researchers have identified cells that may play a key role in some forms of steroid-resistant asthma, a complication of the condition that makes treatment even more challenging.


Targeting helpers of heat shock proteins could help treat cancer, cardiovascular disease

Targeting helpers of heat shock proteins could help treat cancer, cardiovascular disease

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dissecting how heat shock protein 90 gets steroid receptors into shape to use hormones like estrogen and testosterone could lead to targeted therapies for hormone-driven cancers, such as breast and prostate, ...


Plastics chemical retards growth, function of adult reproductive cells

Plastics chemical retards growth, function of adult reproductive cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bisphenol A, a chemical widely used in plastics and known to cause reproductive problems in the offspring of pregnant mice exposed to it, also has been found to retard the growth of follicles of adult mice ...


Steroids ineffective in young children with wheeze

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research involving medical experts at The University of Nottingham has found that steroid tablets do not reduce the symptoms of virus-induced wheezing in pre-school children.



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