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Today’s top bands and musicians come together to raise awareness about the improper use of steroids among their colleagues. Their campaign kicks off with a benefit concert for Urbanation’s lead singer Lance Bañaga tomorrow, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. at Off the Grill in Timog, Quezon City.  
A few weeks ago, Lance almost died while confined […]

DALLAS – Oct. 14, 2008 – Adding corticosteroids to traditional antimicrobial therapy might help people with pneumonia recover more quickly than with antibiotics alone, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have found.
Unlike the anabolic steroids used to bulk up muscle, corticosteroids are often used to treat inflammation related to infectious diseases, such as bacterial meningitis. Used […]

Sometimes newer is not necessarily better.
Over the last five years, many ophthalmologists began using intraocular steroid injections instead of laser surgery to treat a condition called diabetic macular edema, an abnormal swelling in the eye that develops in 40 percent to 45 percent of people with diabetes. They adopted the newer […]

Men who’ve, ahem, fallen and can’t get up - even with the help of Viagra® - may want to get their testosterone levels checked. A recent study shows that in cases where men experiencing erectile difficulties fail to respond to medication, low levels of the male sex hormone may play a role.
Sildenafil, which is sold […]

By Pam Harrison
TORONTO, CANADA — October 31, 2007 — Low-dose steroids have virtually no effect on all-cause mortality when used in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock, according to results from the Corticosteroid Therapy of Septic Shock study (CORTICUS), a large-scale, randomised, placebo-controlled trial funded by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
The study […]