Tearful ex-cop 'embarrassed' about dealing steroids An emotional ex-cop says he turned to dealing illegal steroids and testosterone because he felt like a loser due to mental and physical health issues. AAP · 11h ago
A Bodybuilder Felt a Pop During Weighted Crunches, Kept Training, and Ended Up with a Ruptured Kidney A 49-year-old bodybuilder's kidney ruptured during heavy lifting despite no known kidney disease. Doctors suspect strain and steroid use. Medical Daily · Oct 23
Nearly Two in Three Eosinophilic Esophagitis Patients on Tezspire Reached Tissue Remission After One Year of Treatment In a Phase 3 trial, Tezspire put most eosinophilic esophagitis patients in tissue remission at one year. What does it mean for swallowing and approval? Medical Daily · Oct 21
A 9-Year-Old's Barking Cough Outlasted Steroids, CT Scans and Allergy Tests Before Doctors Looked Beyond Her Lungs A girl's barking cough resisted steroids and lung tests until doctors uncovered anxiety and family stress. A somatic cough is easily missed. Medical Daily · Oct 20
Gym-Goers Who Quit Anabolic Steroids Saw Heart Walls Recover but Pumping Strength Stayed Lower in Norwegian Study Men who quit anabolic steroids saw heart muscle thickening reverse, but pumping strength stayed lower in a small Norwegian study. Warning signs and how to get help. Medical Daily · Oct 15
Her Spinal Mass Shrank on Steroids, but a Slow Lab Culture Unmasked the Rare Bacterium Behind It A neck mass treated as neurosarcoidosis shrank with steroids and rituximab. A culture held for 2+ months revealed a rare bacterium, M. riyadhense. Medical Daily · Oct 6
London Reform candidate vows to run capital 'like Tokyo on steroids' Former Tory councillor Laila Cunningham says technology should be used to streamline bureaucracy. Evening Standard · Oct 3
Rocky star Sylvester Stallone turned to steroids, but why? Sylvester Stallone has opened up about his steroid use in the 80s. BANG Premier · Sep 29
Sylvester Stallone gets candid on steroid use and bulimia Sylvester Stallone struggled with bulimia and used steroids as he grew "obsessed" with his physique in his early career. BANG Premier · Sep 27
Sylvester Stallone admits using steroids to build his Rocky, Rambo physique: ‘You don’t get that way naturally’ Sylvester Stallone has openly acknowledged his steroid use and battle with bulimia during his Hollywood career. His intense focus on achieving a muscular physique took a significant toll on his health. While filming Rocky III, he reached a dangerously low body-fat percentage, impacting his well-being. Stallone felt liberated after taking… The Economic Times · Sep 26
A Spinal Mass Headed for Surgery Melted Away on Steroids, Then Came Back Twice Before Sarcoidosis Appeared in Her Heart A spinal mass read as a likely tumor vanished on steroids, returned twice, and was later joined by heart sarcoidosis. She never needed surgery. Medical Daily · Sep 24
No Rash, No Sores: Syphilis Posed as a Rare Autoimmune Disease in a 24-Year-Old's Lungs A 24-year-old with a cough and odd blood results seemed to have a rare autoimmune disease. Gene sequencing of his lung fluid pointed to syphilis. Medical Daily · Sep 22
Dunesday: will this be Barbenheimer on steroids – the biggest weekend of cinema ever? Since the mammoth success of the films Barbie and Oppenheimer in 2023, Hollywood has taken to jointly marketing movies released on the same day – and December’s matchup of Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday could break all records The Guardian - UK · Sep 21
Steroid Pills Didn't Stop a Rare CT Dye Reaction from Swelling a Woman's Jaw Glands a Second Time A 75-year-old woman took steroids before a CT scan, yet her salivary glands swelled again 16 hours after contrast in a rare reaction, iodide mumps. Medical Daily · Sep 17
The Guardian - UK · Sep 11 Playing With Fire review – like Disney’s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds Wang’s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality installation
Times Life · Sep 5 Snakebite on Your Dog in India: How the Species Determines Survival and What Treatments Make It Worse The snake that bit your dog changes everythingIndia has four snake species responsible for the overwhelming majority of serious envenomations in dogs: the Indian cobra (Naja naja), Russell's viper (Daboia russelii), the common krait (Bungarus caeruleus), and the saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus). These four are collectively called the Big Four,…
International Business Times UK · Sep 4 CFMEU Delegate Busted in Australia: Police Seize Cocaine, MDMA and Steroids in Construction-Site Drug Probe Taskforce Hawk detectives arrested three individuals, including a CFMEU delegate, in a Melbourne drug trafficking investigation. Police seized drugs, weapons, and cash, highlighting construction sites as distribution hubs.
Medical Daily · Sep 1 Rare Dermatomyositis Gets Its First Targeted Therapy After Decades of Limited Options FDA approved Lisraya, the first oral and first targeted therapy for adults with dermatomyositis, a rare autoimmune muscle and skin disease.
Medical Daily · Aug 27 A Rare Blood Disorder Treated for Decades with Steroids Alone Now Has Its First FDA Approved Therapy FDA approved Imaavy for warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia, the first therapy proven safe and effective for a disease long managed with steroids.
TechRadar · Aug 26 AI coding is putting software risk on steroids AI accelerates software development, but can security and governance keep pace with rising risk?
Medical Daily · Aug 25 First Treatment Approved for the Rare Disease in Which Antibodies Destroy a Patient's Own Red Blood Cells FDA approved Imaavy for warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia in patients 12 and older, the first therapy proven safe and effective for the disease.
Medical Daily · Aug 18 A Pancreatic Mass Looked Like One of the Deadliest Cancers on Imaging Until Steroids Made It Disappear Autoimmune pancreatitis builds a pancreatic mass convincing enough to send patients to major surgery. Steroids reverse it, and a drug is now approved.
Times Life · Aug 8 Why Eczema in Indian Adults Traces Back to Gut Health, Microbiome, and Inflammation The skin is the symptom, not the sourceEczema, clinically called atopic dermatitis, affects roughly 10 to 30 percent of children and a significant share of adults in India, according to data published in the Indian Journal of Dermatology. Most adults manage it with moisturisers, topical steroids, and antihistamines. Many cycle…
The Guardian - US · Aug 3 John Oliver on police surveillance: ‘Big Brother on steroids’ The host tore into ‘wildly invasive’ cameras, microphones and license plate readers that police use to track Americans
Medical Daily · Jul 30 A Psoriasis Cream Is Now Approved for Children as Young as 2, and the Data Behind It Works Differently The FDA expanded Zoryve cream 0.3% to children as young as 2 for plaque psoriasis. What the approval rests on and what parents should ask.