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 ...

The findings of a new randomized trial support the rapid tapering of prednisone in patients with generalized myasthenia gravis requiring combined corticosteroid and ...

The risks of tapering steroids in a patient on a dose of 10 mg per day for 1 year should be small if the steroids are tapered gradually. At our clinic, we would initially drop to prednisone 7.5 mg per ...

Corticosteroids are the first-line treatment for the inflammatory condition polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), working rapidly and effectively at easing symptoms like morning stiffness, muscle and joint ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...