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Doctors Find Muscle-Builder Cream Caused Sex Development In Toddler
August 4, 1999 — When a young North Carolina father tried to boost his muscle development artificially, he had no idea he might put his 2-year-old son's health at risk, but that's just what he ... > full story -
Controversial Performance Enhancer "Andro" Affects Brains As Well As Brawn, Say Umass Researchers
July 12, 1999 — Athletes taking the controversial performance enhancer known as "andro" may be affecting their moods as well as their muscles, suggests a study published by University of Massachusetts ... > full story -
Protein Essential For Making Steroids Turns Out To Be A "Molten Globule"
June 24, 1999 — Researchers at UC San Francisco are working to find out how cells make steroid hormones, chemicals that are essential for life, for health and for reproduction because they control the body's ... > full story -
Scientists Explain A Drug's Paradoxical Action: Discovery May Lead To New Therapies For Breast Cancer, Early Puberty
June 14, 1999 — What could be the explanation for a drug that works at low doses to help children with one type of early puberty but requires doses ten times higher to treat a similar disease? For years, this ... > full story -
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Anabolic Steroids May Help Dialysis Patients Fight Fatigue And Gain Lean Body Mass
April 15, 1999 — Patients with kidney disease frequently experience malnutrition and an accompanying loss of muscle mass as a result of their illness and its lifesaving treatment called dialysis. These negative side ... > full story -
National Jewish Researchers Show Intravenous Immunoglobulin Reduces Steroid Insensitivity, Hospitalizations Of People With Severe Asthma
March 16, 1999 — People with severe asthma who are "insensitive" to steroids need less of the medication, fewer "bursts" of it in emergencies and spend less time in the hospital when using intravenous ... > full story -
National Jewish Pediatric Asthma Specialist Urges Monitoring Growth When Using Nebulized Glucocorticoids As An Asthma Treatment In Children
November 11, 1998 — Using a nebulizer as a delivery system for glucocorticoid medication is effective in treating asthma in children, but a National Jewish Medical and Research Center physician recommends continued ... > full story -
New Steroid Hormone Has Allure Of Its Own
October 12, 1998 — The first steroid hormone unearthed in 30 years is chemical cousin to the molecule that lures pigs to truffles, and like that rare and elusive fungus, it is in a class by itself. Previously ... > full story -
Steroids May Reverse Loss Of Substance Tied To Nervous-System Diseases
October 5, 1998 — Steroids help to reduce inflammation, but University of Illinois scientists suggest they also could be used to reverse a loss of myelin -- a major problem in multiple sclerosis and other ... > full story -
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Some CFS Patients Benefit From Low-Dose Steroid, But Side Effects Too Risky
September 22, 1998 — Low doses of the steroid hydrocortisone can cause slight improvement in some chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) symptoms but at the risk of inducing adrenal suppression. This finding, NIAID researchers ... > full story
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