Although intravenous (IV) corticosteroid is standard therapy for acute optic neuritis (ON), it was unclear whether a bioequivalent dose of oral corticosteroid would be as effective. The oral route ...

Tezepelumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting thymic stromal lymphopoietin approved for add-on severe asthma treatment in 2021, had been associated with oral corticosteroid sparing in the phase III ...

Patients were included in the corticosteroid-treated group if they had received ≥ 10 mg of prednisone (or corticosteroid equivalent) within 24 hours of the first dose of the PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor.

An asthma treatment that contains both an inhaled long-acting bronchodilator and an inhaled corticosteroid was as effective at providing overall asthma control as more than double the dose of the ...

In an equivalence study, pain scores for the corticosteroid and NSAID were similar as were the number of adverse events, which were minor, Hein Janssens, M.D., of Radboud University Nijmegen ...

3. EMA, Concept Paper on the development of a Guideline on Quality and Equivalence of Topical Products (London, Dec. 2014). About the author: Robert Harris, PhD, is chief technical officer at Juniper ...

The findings of a new randomized trial support the rapid tapering of prednisone in patients with generalized myasthenia gravis requiring combined corticosteroid and azathioprine therapy. The trial ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, bacterial meningitis is common and is associated with a high mortality. Adjuvant therapy with corticosteroids reduces mortality among adults in the developed world, but it ha ...

Most corticosteroid injections into your knee or a smaller joint, like the base of your thumb, can be done in a doctor’s office. First, the doctor cleans your skin with an antiseptic.