Regularly taking steroids can weaken your immune system and increase your risk of developing COVID-19 or more severe illness. Corticosteroids are different than anabolic steroids, which are drugs that ...

Headline to a column written in the Philadelphia Daily News: “NFL seems to have better handle on steroid problem than MLB.” The keyword is “seems.” According to the article, steroid use was de rigueur ...

Young children are using illegal drugs to pump themselves up. A study out of the University of Massachusetts shows more pre-teens are using steroids. What these young athletes don't know is that a ...

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, ...

This is a story I’ve been thinking about writing for the last five years. Maybe it will resonate with some readers. Maybe it will flop. Some will agree with it; others may attack me for writing it.

The abuse of anabolic steroids is no longer confined to a small group of professional athletes and bodybuilders. Today, teenagers girls as well as boys seeking shortcuts to athletic prowess or ...

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 ...

Steroid injections can help relieve back pain and reduce a person’s need for surgery. They are typically a safe and effective treatment but do not provide a full cure for the cause of back pain. Many ...

Researchers have found a promising treatment breakthrough for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that avoids many of the drawbacks of current drugs, and it has come from an unexpected place.

It was always supposed to be about protecting the kids. That aspect of the Great Steroid Scandal of 2005 seems to have been forgotten amid the political spectacle of last spring's congressional ...