News tagged with methylprednisolone
Can hormone help treat multiple sclerosis long-term?
A new study suggests that treatment with adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) may be helpful for people whose multiple sclerosis (MS) is not well-controlled through their regular treatment. The study was released today and ...
Neuroscience
Mar 10, 2013 |
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Early clinical observations in the fungal meningitis outbreak
A new article being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine describes the diagnosis and treatment protocol established in a Roanoke, Va. hospital to care for dozens of patients presenting with suspected fungal ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 12, 2012 |
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Meningitis outbreak toll now 23 dead, 297 sickened: CDC
(HealthDay)—Twenty-three people have now died and 297 have been sickened in the nationwide meningitis outbreak apparently tied to contaminated steroid injections, U.S. health officials reported Monday.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 22, 2012 |
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Steroid-related meningitis cases now total 91, CDC says
(HealthDay)—The number of meningitis cases linked to apparently contaminated steroid injections has risen to 91 in nine states, and the number of deaths remains at seven, U.S. health officials reported ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 08, 2012 |
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US clinics rush to warn of tainted steroid; 5 dead
(AP)—Health providers scrambled to notify patients in nearly two dozen U.S. states that the steroid injections they received for back pain may have been contaminated with a deadly fungal meningitis. Five ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 05, 2012 |
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Rare US fungal meningitis outbreak grows; 5 dead (Update)
(AP)—A fifth person has died in a growing outbreak of a rare form of meningitis that has sickened more than two dozen people in five U.S. states.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 04, 2012 |
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Free light chains identified in chronic rhinosinusitis
(HealthDay) -- Patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) have increased free light chain (FLC) concentrations, particularly those with CRS with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), according to a study published online ...
Immunology
Jul 16, 2012 |
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Cabazitaxel can offer an advantage in certain patients
Cabazitaxel (trade name: Jevtana) has been approved since March 2011 in men with metastatic prostate cancer who no longer respond to conventional therapy with hormone blockers and have already been pre-treated with the cytostatic ...
Cancer
May 29, 2012 |
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