While corticosteroid injections can be very effective at alleviating the pain and inflammation of osteoarthritis, they might not be for everyone.
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While RSV can become severe for any child, it poses a particularly serious threat for the youngest babies and for high-risk children.
Different painkillers provide relief in different ways. The most effective medication is the one that best targets the type of pain you’re experiencing with minimal side effects.
Not only have asthma attack rates decreased during the pandemic, evidence suggests people with asthma are not at increased risk of severe outcomes from COVID.
There’s still a lot of uncertainty, but the picture is gradually getting clearer – here’s what we know so far.
Hydrocortisone – a common remedy for eczema – joins dexamethasone as a proven treatment for the worst cases of coronavirus.
Common and cheap drugs save lives of patients critically ill with COVID-19, a new analysis shows. But these corticosteroids are not a cure.
Preliminary results indicate dexamethasone could help treat severely ill patients in hospital with COVID-19. But it’s early days yet.
A trial of methylprednisolone in kidney patients was halted recently because of safety concerns. But this doesn’t affect people taking the drug for asthma, arthritis or other inflammatory conditions.
In pregnancy, immune cells help the uterus tolerate and nurture the embryo despite it carrying foreign genes from the father. In most women, suppressing immunity will likely cause more harm than good.
People who have rheumatoid arthritis often suffer from depression as well. For poor people this is often worse because they cut off their social networks.
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, Keele University
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Rheumatologist, University of Cape Town
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Head Melbourne School Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine
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Postgraduate MSK Lecturer, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, University of Essex
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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh
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Head of School and Dean of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor and Director, Robinson Research Institute, Adelaide University