Topical steroid withdrawal is a controversial topic. What matters is treating patients with compassion and supporting them in their decision to stop treatment.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Giving steroids to children who are wheezing because of viral or other infections does not help, researchers reported on Wednesday. And an experimental treatment designed to prevent ...

ORLANDO — Clinicians commonly recommend that the dose of inhaled glucocorticoids be quintupled when patients start losing control of their asthma, but this strategy fails to prevent exacerbations in ...

The market withdrawal of the brand-name asthma drug fluticasone propionate (Flovent) was linked to increased discontinuation of inhaled steroid therapy among children who had used the drug, a ...

Steroid use is down among teenagers, but experts warn that young people are replacing it with a potentially dangerous booster. Researchers from the University of Michigan found that while anabolic ...

A landmark Indian clinical trial has found that giving steroids in short bursts instead of continuously can halve early treatment‑related deaths in children with leukaemia without reducing their ...