There is an air of desperation surrounding treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). With every new failure to come up with a drug that can reliably prevent progression of the disease, medicine grows bolder, experimenting with ever more powerful--and...
Cyclosporin(e) or Sandimmun(e) (both without the "e" in the US) produced by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals is a classic example of a drug being developed for one use, which is then "borrowed" for the trea ...
Azathioprine, like cyclosporin, is an immunosuppressive drug, originally designed to help the body stop rejecting organ transplants. It tinkers with the body's autoimmune function, leaving it sus ...
Not long ago, the 78 year old dermatologist Dr Jerome Z. Litt, author of one of the profession's standard textbooks The Drug Eruption Manual (Parthenon Publishing, 1999) spoke out about the narrow ...
My niece, aged 10, has been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. It worries me that she will be taking immunosuppressant drugs for six years. I believe she developed the condition after being regularly exposed to antibacterial cleaners as a baby and...
Doctors tell you that steroids only cause side effects after many years. But new research shows that permanent damage is immediate and devastating. Here's how to avoid it. ...
The American Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning following reports of severe illness and deaths from chickenpox in children treated with steroids. ...
Patients taking cyclosporine, the wonder drug now being used for everything from transplants to psoriasis, are at risk of developing kidney damage, particularly at high doses. ...
Sandoz, which manufactures cyclosporin A, the drug used to help organ transplants "take", has applied to license the drug to treat recalcitrant cases of psoriasis. ...
Steroids are fast catching up with antibiotics as the most abused class of drugs in your doctor's black bag. There's no doubt that the discovery of steroids a half century ago was a major advance ...
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