Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “The prednisone dosage in treatment of moderate to severe (myasthenia gravis [MG]) is commonly gradually ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Baseline prednisone use is associated with an increased risk for poor outcomes among patients with systemic ...

The risks of tapering steroids in a patient on a dose of 10 mg per day for 1 year should be small if the steroids are tapered gradually. At our clinic, we would initially drop to prednisone 7.5 mg per ...

In a single-center, single-arm, open-label pilot study, 30 adults (mean age, 73.7 years) with GCA received 162 mg of tocilizumab as a subcutaneous injection once a week for 52 weeks, plus prednisone ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 85-year-old woman. About seven years ago, I was diagnosed with Lyme disease and put on prednisone. I have been weaned off a few times, but I always got sick and had to go back ...

I’d become an eating machine with a loathsome attitude on prednisone, so I decided to conduct my own taper of the drug. Four months after my allogeneic bone marrow transplant, I left the Stanford ...

Miriam Freimer, MD, clinical professor of neurology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, reflects on how findings from the RAISE-XT trial potentially translate to real-world practice ...

Credit: Getty images. Study authors assessed whether the addition of a prednisone taper could decrease opioid use in patients undergoing tonsillectomy, tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, or expansion ...

Three yellow capsules on blueish, reflective background. Avacopan plus rituximab offers a superior remission rate at 52 weeks and lower risk of relapse compared with prednisone taper plus rituximab, ...