The risks of tapering steroids in a patient on a dose of 10 mg per day for 1 year should be small if the steroids are tapered gradually. At our clinic, we would initially drop to prednisone 7.5 mg per ...

Dr. Keith Roach writes a medical question-and-answer column weekdays. Dear Dr. Roach: I was recently worked up for an autoimmune disease that now seems to be osteoarthritis. I was placed on 10 mg of ...

Impact of Travel Time on Health Care Costs and Resource Use by Phase of Care for Older Patients With Cancer To evaluate the impact of baseline corticosteroids on ICI efficacy in NSCLC, we compared ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I was recently worked up for an autoimmune disease that now seems to be osteoarthritis. I was placed on 10 mg of prednisone for 14 days with amazing relief from my painful shoulder and ...

The discovery and introduction of corticosteroid therapy by Philip Hench in the late 1940s and early 1950s was a seminal advance in the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Dear Dr. Roach • I am 76 years old and have been on 10 mg prednisone daily for four years. I have Wegener’s granulomatosis. I ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 62-year-old male in generally good physical and mental health. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at age 21. I had bowel resection surgery, but have no debilitating symptoms ...

Researchers have retrospectively analyzed data from nearly 60 patients with ocular myasthenia gravis (MG) not adequately responding to oral prednisone, finding that both intravenous (IV) ...

Oral glucocorticoids are used to treat patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA); however, long-term treatment can result in glucocorticoid-related complications. This was a double-blind, randomized, ...

Tocilizumab, a biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug targeting interleukin 6, reduces disease activity more ...

Volumetric modulated arctherapy (VMAT) compared with sliding window intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for whole pelvis irradiation (WPI) of locally advanced prostate cancer (LAPC). Tc-99m ...