What’s next? One option your doctor may recommend is a topical corticosteroid, commonly known as a steroid. The medication can ease the redness, itching, and inflammation so your skin can begin ...

Administration of corticosteroid, whether local (Group 4) or systemic (Group 5), did not interfere in wound healing resistance when compared to Group 2. With the macroscopic study of the healing ...

Certain medications used in the treatment of bone conditions, particularly when combined with corticosteroids, may ...

Data from the WAYFINDER study showed clinically meaningful reductions and discontinuations of oral corticosteroids.

In a new symptom-driven approach, GINA recommend that inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are used only when someone with asthma feels like they need a bronchodilator, rather than as regular preventer ...

Corticosteroid injections caused "significantly greater structural damage in the knee joint," according to a new study.

Although the chemical structures of these steroids are modeled on natural corticosteroids, changes have been made to optimize therapeutic potential and minimize adverse reactions (Figure 1).

Researchers comparing two injections commonly used to relieve knee pain from osteoarthritis—corticosteroid and hyaluronic acid—found that corticosteroid injections were associated with higher ...

Corticosteroid therapy for the treatment of clinically manifest cardiac sarcoidosis is generally recommended. Our group previously systematically reviewed the data in 2013; since then, there has been ...

Steroids, also called glucocorticoids ... where the risk increases with greater exposure to the drug. The most common conditions in the study group were inflammatory bowel disease, which affected ...

Aim: To compare the outcomes of intravenous corticosteroid administration during the day or night, for treatment of acute multiple sclerosis relapses. Methods: 17 patients with multiple sclerosis were ...

However, the role of inhaled corticosteroids in the treatment of COPD is controversial. We hypothesised that inhaled corticosteroids reduce the progression of airflow limitation in COPD. Methods: A ...