News tagged with steroid treatment
Study Finds Post-Transplant Patients Off Steroids Have Fewer Cardiovascular Events
(PhysOrg.com) -- Post-transplant patients who have been removed from a corticosteroid regimen have fewer cardiovascular events than those patients on steroids, increasing their graft survival rates and reducing ...
May 05, 2010 |
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Steroid injections may slow diabetes-related eye disease
Researchers led by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute have found that injecting a corticosteroid, triamcinolone, directly into the eye may slow the progression of proliferative diabetic retinopathy, a complication ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Potential cancer drug may offer new hope for asthma patients
A drug being tested to treat cancer could also help patients suffering from asthma, research has suggested.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Researchers find new way to attack inflammation in Graves' eye disease
A small group of patients with severe Graves' eye disease experienced rapid improvement of their symptoms — and improved vision — following treatment with the drug rituximab. Inflammation around their eyes and damage to the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Exercise better than shockwave treatment for chronic shoulder pain
Supervised exercises are more effective than shockwave treatment to relieve chronic shoulder pain, finds a study published in British Medical Journal today.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Two targeted therapies likely better than one in patients with aggressive lymphoma
When combined with a cocktail of chemotherapy drugs, two monoclonal antibodies, instead of one, appear to offer superior results in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, according to Mayo Clinic researchers working ...
May 15, 2009 |
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Oral steroids ineffective in the treatment of preschool virus-induced wheezing
A new study from Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry has found that a common treatment for wheezing in preschool children is no more effective than a placebo.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 21, 2009 |
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