Word: steroids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BREATHING UNEASY A common asthma treatment, the steroid inhalant beclomethasone, is great at reducing the frequency of attacks, but it may have a downside: a study finds that in kids with mild asthma, the drug may delay growth slightly...
...file Internet dispatches from Camp Four, at 26,000 ft. Did she deserve to be mocked for her pretensions or admired for her pluck? (Pittman did reach the top, "short-roped" or dragged there by a Sherpa, and got back down, after collapsing and being revived by an emergency steroid injection...
...Asthmatic alert. Elderly ASTHMATIC patients who use high doses of steroid inhalers (two deep puffs four times a day) may be increasing their chances of developing glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness. Patients should not stop using inhalers, but they should get regular eye exams...
...that weekend. Dana and Will, his three-year-old son who was along for the trip, were summoned, Dana not yet informed of the extent of the injury, Will not understanding what had happened except that something was terribly wrong. Doctors at Culpeper gave Reeve methylprednisolone (MP), a synthetic steroid that reduces the swelling of the spine and must be administered within eight hours of an injury. That was all they could do at Culpeper. At the hospital, Dana was told that he had no better than a 50% chance of making it. He was flown to the U.Va. hospital...
...spinal-cord injury, a patient could save about 20% more neurons than if the drug was not used. For some, this 20% could mean the difference between breathing on their own and having to use a ventilator. Doctors speculate that at high doses, MP no longer acts as a steroid but instead inhibits the breakdown of fats into the dangerous free radicals that are like acid to cell tissues. For basic activities such as breathing, controlling bowel and bladder movements and moving the arms and legs, a person may need only 8% to 10% of the estimated 800,000 spinal...