Steroid Tames Mild Cases of Croup
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It&#39;s the middle of the night and your child, who&#39;s been sick with a cold, is making the strangest noises you&#39;ve ever heard; it almost sounds like a seal barking.
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NEW YORK  - For the average person, popping vitamin C pills is unlikely to ward off the common cold or shorten its length or severity. However, for people exposed to short bouts of extreme physical exercise or cold temperatures, vitamin C may markedly reduce their risk of catching a cold.
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Pimecrolimus cream provides rapid relief of symptoms and helps promote sleep in young children with eczema, German researchers report.
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BOSTON  - Use of echinacea, or extract of   the purple coneflower, before the onset of full-blown symptoms   of the common cold reduces the incidence by more than a half   and the duration by almost two full days, researchers reported   here at the annual meeting of the American College of Clinical   Pharmacology.
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The steroid known as &quot;the clear,&quot; which in recent days has been linked to Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Marion Jones and is at the center of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) scandal
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Baseball players may not be the only animals looking to gain an advantage by using steroids.
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Don&#39;t rip out the carpeting. Or buy a humidifier. Or get rid of the cat. Not, at least, until your allergist or pediatrician tells you such steps might alleviate sniffling
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Steroids boost the body but donât expect a âgotchaâ in a playerâs statistics.
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Giving one dose of steroids to babies in the womb does not badly effects long-term health, a study finds.
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Inhaling a salt-water aerosol, a treatment often used for asthma, may also reduce the spread of germs that can spread disease, according to a new report.
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Children with allergic conditions such as asthma may receive too high a dose of steroids, drug experts warn.
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In a small new study, the chemical that makes chocolate a mild stimulant outperformed codeine in suppressing coughs.
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Warning labels for certain steroid-based allergy and asthma drugs provide sufficient warnings about potential side effects -- including stunted growth --  in children and teenagers,  a U.S. panel of medical experts concluded on Wednesday.
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A steroid drug long given to treat the facial paralysis of Bell's palsy improves the rate of recovery, but the antivirus drug acyclovir does not, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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A new inhaled steroid treatment for preventing asthma attacks in young children has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the drugmaker Schering-Plough Corp. said Monday.
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TUESDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- Savings of &#36;4.75 billion a year could be achieved in the United States if more people used over-the-counter (OTC) medications to treat common upper respiratory infections, says a Northwestern University study.
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NEW YORK  - Surgery that uses a tiny camera  placed in the nose can restore the normal nasal sound to the  voices of patients with ongoing sinus inflammation, also called  chronic sinusitis, according to a report presented here Tuesday  at the annual meeting of the American Academy of  Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.