If you live with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), you know how painful and disruptive a flare can be: Stiff, swollen joints and inflamed skin can make even simple tasks feel impossible. That’s often when ...

Anabolic-androgenic steroids are medications that can be prescribed for certain medical conditions. Also simply known as anabolic steroids, these are also sometimes misused for other purposes, ...

Adjunctive corticosteroids may reduce mortality from all forms of tuberculosis by 17%, no matter which organ group was affected, according to a meta-analysis. Julia A. Critchley, DPhil, from the ...

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 ...

OTTAWA — The use of oral rather than intravenous (IV) steroids to respond to relapses in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) is growing, a study suggested. The data, which were ...

Neither corticosteroids nor anabolic steroids have been specifically linked to an increased risk of brain aneurysms. But both can potentially cause high blood pressure, which is a risk factor for the ...

Mark McGwire's admission this week that he used steroids during his baseball career reopened the discussion about the risks and benefits of the drugs. Coverage was set to lapse for Aetna members ...