My columnon Barry Bondsgenerated a flood of e-mail. Here's a sampling with a few of my replies in italics: E-mailer: Babe Ruth will be the best baseball player that ever lived. Yes, he lived a rough ...

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Still itching after topical steroids? Here's why your atopic dermatitis symptoms may still be flaring and what you can do about it.

Steroids, also known as corticosteroids, are synthetic hormones that can help reduce swelling and inflammation in the body, which may help improve back pain. Back pain is not a specific diagnosis or ...

New studies confirm that multiple types of steroids improve survival for severely ill covid-19 patients, cementing the inexpensive drugs as a standard of care. An analysis of pooled results from seven ...

Slightly more than half of the positive drug tests in professional baseball the past two years have come from pitchers, including nine of 10 this season, debunking the theory that pitchers are less ...

Steroid drugs, a common treatment for young children prone to wheezing and colds, do not help and may even be harmful, according to new research. Preschoolers in Britain who were hospitalized with a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A longstanding practice of giving steroids to patients during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery to reduce inflammation failed to help patients and actually increased the risk of ...

Steroids help reduce inflammation and may reduce dental pain alongside other treatments. People may take steroids before or after dental surgery or to help manage severe infections. A dentist may ...

As the wrestling world struggles to come to terms with the shocking news of Hulk Hogan's sudden passing, fans have been left asking: could his death have been connected to steroid abuse? Hogan, real ...

Constipation usually doesn’t happen as a direct result of steroid use. But some of the long-term effects of steroid use on your body, such as lowered blood potassium levels, can cause constipation.