Steroids - The sleaziest of drugs - Doctors tell you that steroids only cause side effects after many years. But new research shows that permanent damage is immediate and devastating. He...

Inhaled steroids slow growth in children - More evidence that inhaled steroids carry the same risks as the oral kind. New research shows that children treated with the inhaled corticosteroid be...

Steroid asthma treatment may be wrong - The idea of what asthma is and how it should be treated could be due for a rethink, if the findings of a new research study are to be believed. ...

Inhaled steroids cause spinal osteoporosis - Inhaled steroids reduce bone density in the spine of women with asthma, according to new research. ...

Bronchiolitis: steroids useless - Children suffering from acute bronchiolitis are routinely treated with steroids, especially in North America, although there is no evidence to show th...

Asthma: low steroid dose - High doses of inhaled steroids offer no benefit over lower doses for severe asthma sufferers who are also taking oral steroids, according to German re...

Aids and hiv: the steroid connection - How steroids cause aids: a systematic assault on the body - Steroids have extreme and far-reaching effects on many systems of the body. Immune system * Reduce functions and numbers of T and B cells and othe...

Meningitis is now an adult disease - Five years after the Haemophilus influenzae type b (or Hib) jab was introduced as routine for US children, researchers are finding that, while the inc...