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  Study Suggests How Steroid Can Reverse Post-Traumatic Stress

  September 12, 2006 — Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center, working with mice, have shown how the body's own natural stress hormone can help lastingly decrease the fearful response associated with reliving a ... > full story
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  Pressure To Be More Muscular May Lead Men To Unhealthy Behaviors

  August 10, 2006 — Women are not the only ones in American society who feel pressure to achieve the perfect body. New research suggests that men feel pressure to have muscular bodies, and that influence can lead some ... > full story
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  Steroid Abuse Harms Gingival Tissues

  July 5, 2006 — Researchers found that prolonged use of anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) is closely associated with significant levels of gingival enlargement, according to a new study published in the Journal of ... > full story
• Bone and Spine
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  Drug Banned By Sports May Be Good For Oldies

  June 14, 2006 — A world-first pilot study suggests that anabolic steroids, best known for doping in sports, may in fact help older people recover better after joint replacement ... > full story
• Endangered Plants
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  No-Mow Grass May Be Coming To Your Yard Soon

  May 5, 2006 — For anyone tethered to a lawnmower, the Holy Grail of horticultural accomplishment would be grass that never grows but is always green. Now, that vision of suburban bliss -- and more -- seems ... > full story
• Endangered Plants
  Molecular Biology
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  Salk Scientists Untangle Steroid Hormone Signaling In Plants

  May 4, 2006 — When given extra shots of the plant steroid brassinolide, plants "pump up" like major league baseball players do on steroids. Tracing brassinolide's signal deep into the cell's nucleus, researchers ... > full story
• Arthritis
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  The Promise Of A B-Cell Biologic Therapy For Rheumatoid Arthritis

  April 28, 2006 — The results of a study featured in the May 2006 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism, indicate the promise of low-dose rituximab to achieve remission for RA patients, without serious side effects and ... > full story
• Asthma
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  Today's Healthcare
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  Inhaled Steroids Preferred Over Cromolyn To Treat Asthma

  April 19, 2006 — Adults and children with asthma will breathe deeper and have better control over their asthma with inhaled corticosteroids Beclovent, Pulmicort and Flovent than with the medicine cromolyn (Intal), ... > full story
• Asthma
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  Today's Healthcare
   

  Vitamin Supplement Could Help Treatment-Resistant Asthma

  December 8, 2005 — Asthma patients who don't respond to steroid treatment suffer repeated asthma attacks, and are at greater risk of dying from the condition. Researchers from King's College London have found that ... > full story
• Children's Health
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  Steroids And Chicken Pox Not A Good Mix

  October 20, 2005 — Children who have been treated with steroids and are exposed to chicken pox tend to have a more severe case of the virus, according to pediatric oncologists at Brenner Children's Hospital, part of ... > full story

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