Depression, Insomnia, Most Common Steroid Toxicities in Global Trial
"Individual response is variable - there are no obvious clinical factors that we have been able to pinpoint that predict how severe side effects may be - but there appears to be a resounding benefit ...
In Conversation With… Dedee Murrell, MD DSc
“Steroid-toxicity is a huge problem amongst our patients… it sounds simple to just give people steroids, but the types of side effects they get when they have to be on these drugs for one to two ...
In Conversation With… Yoshiya Tanaka MD, PhD
"We know that it is not easy to taper patients safely. So if we find a patient’s toxicity scores are worsening we can try an immunosuppressant or a biologic drug and then we need to track to see if ...
In conversation with... Murray Urowitz MD. FRCP(C)
“If you ask the doctor and patient what they want most of all, their unanimous answer will be, ‘not to have to use steroids.’” Murray Urowitz MD. FRCP(C) is a rheumatologist who has spent the “last ...
In conversation with... Michelle Petri MD MPH
“There has to be an acceptance that steroids are now an undesirable part of treating most rheumatic diseases, and our prescribing behavior must change.” Michelle Petri MD, MPH is a leading ...
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