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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

"There is something new in giant cell arteritis at last, and the era of unending glucocorticoid treatment with no viable alternative is over," said John H. Stone, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School, ...

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, ...

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 ...