Ensuring Data Integrity When the Stakes Are High
When the stakes involve patient outcomes and the credibility of clinical trials in the medical, health and pharmaceutical sectors, maintaining data accuracy, integrity and privacy is essential. In ...
Children Experience High Burden from Steroid-toxicity
Early results from a pilot study into the impact of steroid-toxicity on pediatric lupus nephritis patients suggest that children experience a high burden of steroid-toxicity and that variation in ...
In Conversation With… Joyce Chang, MD MSCE
“Infection is probably the biggest morbidity and mortality risk early on, and steroids dramatically increase the risk of infection." Joyce Chang, MD MSCE is a pediatric rheumatologist at Boston ...
In Conversation With... John H. Stone, MD MPH
“Steroids have a role in treating so many diseases - and yet, they do not cure any of them.” John H. Stone, MD MPH is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Edward A. Fox Chair in ...
Steroid-toxicity in Children: Understudied, not Forgotten
Glucocorticoids remain a critical component of treating many pediatric diseases. According to Aulakh and Singh, in fact, it is estimated 10% of children may require some form of glucocorticoid during ...
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