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 ...

Systemic therapy for sarcoidosis is reserved for organ-threatening disease, and laryngeal involvement necessitates treatment ...

Avacopan and prednisone taper were associated with similar and substantial improvements in the control of active disease in multiple organ systems in the phase 3 ADVOCATE trial. Patients with ...

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 ...

A combination of tocilizumab plus prednisone-tapered therapy was superior to placebo plus steroid taper for achieving glucocorticoid-free remission in giant-cell arteritis (GCA), the phase 3 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gradual withdrawal of glucocorticoids was successful among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) after 2 years of clinically quiescent disease, without an increased likelihood of flares, ...

Avacopan was safe and effective among patients with respiratory tract manifestations of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis. Avacopan shows promising efficacy and safety among ...