Word: corticosteroid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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INHALER ALERT Just months after researchers warned asthma patients that chronic use of corticosteroid inhalers may be linked to glaucoma, they now find that the lifesaving inhalers may also increase the risk of cataracts...
...Benson's view, prayer operates along the same biochemical pathways as the relaxation response. In other words, praying affects epinephrine and other corticosteroid messengers or "stress hormones," leading to lower blood pressure, more relaxed heart rate and respiration and other benefits...
Asthma is an inflammation of the bronchial tubes that is not difficult to treat, even if doctors cannot cure it. (Most people with asthma develop it as children or teenagers, and some eventually outgrow the condition.) The key, specialists say, is to control the underlying inflammation, usually with corticosteroid drugs. What makes the disease so dangerous is that it can kill in a matter of minutes. Every now and again, for reasons that are not entirely clear, the bronchioles overreact to the presence of allergens. The walls of the airways clamp down, shutting off the supply of oxygen...