Shared Decision-making’s Critical Role in Preventing Opportunistic Infections
A recent review has highlighted the importance of shared decision-making as a key pillar in the prevention of acute infection in patients treated with long-term steroids. Glucocorticoids are ...
In Conversation With… Glenn Philips, PhD
“We're using the same tools that demonstrate the benefit of our drugs to show that the long-term cost of steroids has been vastly underestimated.” Glenn Philips, PhD is the Vice President of Health ...
Quantifying the Risk-Benefit Ratio of Steroids in Myasthenia Gravis
A pioneering analysis of electronic health record (EHR) data from the Optum® EHR database has shown that it is finally possible to quantify the risk-to-benefit ratio of prescribing glucocorticoids, ...
Steroid-toxicity Drives Increased Organ Damage in Lupus Nephritis
Recent research by Joo and colleagues at The Catholic University of Korea, Department of Rheumatology has shown that for many lupus nephritis patients, the cure may be at least as damaging as the ...
Rapid Tapering Reduces Steroid-toxicity in GCA
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an inflammatory disease of large and medium-sized blood vessels, primarily affecting people over the age of 50. GCA is the most common form of vasculitis and is ...
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