Steroid imports lead to find on former AFL player
Former Hawthorn and West Coast player, Daniel Chick, was fined $7000 after he pleaded guilty of importing steroids.
The 33-year-old former West Coast star and current Subiaco player detained by Customs and Border Protection over steroids importation at Perth International Airport. He was then questioned importing performance and image enhancing drugs into [...]
Obese asthmatic patients not beneficiaries of steroids
The primary controller medication for asthma, glucocorticoids, is 40 percent less effective in obese and overweight asthma patients when compared to asthmatic patients with normal weight, as per a finding disclosed by researchers at National Jewish Health.
This study, by Associate Professor of Medicine E. Rand Sutherland, MD, MPH and his colleagues [...]
Children with allergies are over-burdened with steroids
Drug experts issued a warning to parents and healthcare professionals in regard to the fact that children suffering from allergic conditions such as asthma and hayfever are being over-prescribed corticosteroids.
This warning was issued after a research unveiled at the British Pharmaceutical Conference (BPC) in Manchester suggested that most of the children with from multiple allergic [...]
Kidney disease treatment possible with organ rejection drug
A drug currently used for preventing kidney transplant rejection was recently rated as useful during evaluation at John Hopkins. The drug, mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), can prove useful for providing relief to patients with severe symptoms of kidney disease.
During the evaluation, it was found that significant enhancements can be [...]
Black asthmatic teens more resistant to steroid-based asthma treatment
Black teens suffering from asthma are three times more likely to have steroid-resistant asthma than their white counterparts with the disease, as per a research conducted at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center.
Joseph Spahn, M.D., a pediatric allergist and director of the Immunopharmacology Lab at National Jewish said that African-American children are at a [...]
Patients affected with multiple myeloma get relief from steroid pills
According to researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, steroid pills are effective for improving the overall survival rate of individuals affected by multiple myeloma.
Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow.
James Berenson, M.D., lead author of the Southwest Oncology Group sponsored study and Director of the Multiple Myeloma and Bone [...]
Monitoring of nitric oxide of no use
There are no significant improvements in context of calibrating medications based on daily monitoring of the fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) and symptoms in asthmatic children over medicating based on daily symptom monitoring alone, as per a multi-center prospective study.
The results appeared in an issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, [...]
Short course of corticosteroids effective after asthma attack
A Cochrane Systematic Review has suggested that the risk of an asthma attack relapse can be significantly reduced with a short course of corticosteroids after a patient gets discharged from the hospital for an asthma attack.
It was also suggested that administration of steroids can also reduce the use of inhalers and the benefits of steroid [...]
Steroid hormones act differently in invertebrates and humans
Enzymes used for synthesizing steroids in snails, corals, octopuses, and insects are unrelated to those used in human beings according to a team of French and American scientists, including Michael E. Baker, PhD, professor in UC San Diego’s Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology-Hypertension.
This research was spearheaded by a team at the Université de Lyon, [...]
Cricketers refused to cooperate with WADA regulations
The International Cricket Council is doubting the World Anti-doping Agency’s decision to subject their athletes to Olympic drug regulations.
The Indians remained insistent that it poses as a security threat to high-profile athletes such as Sachin Tendulkar. They are confident that other countries would back them.
The WADA code necessitates that athletes must submit their whereabouts for [...]