steroids

(MedPage Today) -- Patients who stopped taking the immunosuppressant prednisone soon after a kidney transplant avoided steroid-related side effects without putting their new organs at risk, according to a decade-long study.

New Yorkers with severe asthma have tried it all: inhalers, steroids, nebulizers. Now a Manhattan hospital is offering a rare surgery in which the lungs are "cooked" to weaken the muscles that cause asthma attacks.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Steroid drugs, a common treatment for young children prone to wheezing and colds, do not help and may even be harmful, according to new research.

Preschoolers in Britain who were hospitalized with a wheezing attack and treated with the steroid prednisolone stayed just as long as other children who were given dummy pills....