Doctors have known this for more than a decade, and commonly prescribe anti-inflammatory steroids to help prevent asthma attacks.
It's common to prescribe steroids as a way to counteract wasting.
Physicians would still be permitted to prescribe steroids for therapeutic use.
The three are accused of running a scheme to illegally prescribe anabolic steroids and human growth hormones.
GPs are to be warned of the side effects of prescribing steroids to children after a nine year old girl died after taking the drugs.
In the past I've prescribed steroids freely without thinking of their immunosupressant effects.
I've prescribed steroids freely in the past without thinking about the immunosuppressant effect.
They prescribed steroids that caused her 130-pound body to balloon to 200.
If the psoriasis is severe, he might prescribe topical steroids for a short period of time before switching over.
Your doctor might prescribe oral steroids (corticosteroids) when you have an asthma attack that is not going away.