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...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...
Controversy boiled up. Evans, who swam against a notoriously drug-aided East German team, is a straight-arrow in the matter of performance-enhancing substances. When the U.S. authorities refused to ban 15-year-old freestyler Jessica Foschi, who had tested positive for a steroid, Evans objected that the team was throwing away its moral right to object, for instance, to drug use by the Chinese. And then a pint-size, cheeky 15-year-old named Brooke Bennett, who reminded some people of a younger Janet Evans (and who beat Evans soundly in the 400 free in May 1995), began...
Last August Foschi tested positive for a banned, performance-enhancing steroid. Under the rules of FINA, the sport's international governing body, she should be suspended for two years--eliminating her from the Olympics. However, Foschi said she did not know how the substance got into her body and that she never knowingly used illegal drugs. A panel for U.S. Swimming believed her. Last November the U.S.S. gave her two years' probation, a penalty that lets her try out for the Olympic team...