A lot of research has been done on any possible link between breast cancer and the Pill - by which I mean the combined contraceptive pill, which contains the hormones oestrogen and progesterone.

After doctors gave him steroid pills to combat swelling after surgery ... before his death and continued to make music while there. "I don’t know what was driving him near the end," Alex confessed.

There was also the issue ... progesterone for another purpose. After cortisone had proved lucrative for the pharmaceutical industry, Searle and other drug companies had instructed their ...

and come despite repeated assurances from manufacturers that there are no long-term effects. Today fertility experts described the research as "highly significant" and said Pill users must be told ...

In a new interview, Alex Van Halen has revealed that his brother, Eddie Van Halen, consumed a bottle of steroid pills before his death in 2020.

Found a stray pill in your medicine cabinet? Have a loved one who mixed up a couple of their meds by mistake? There are plenty of reasons you might wonder, “What pill is this?” WebMD’s Pill ...

However, when the Pill was in development in the 1950s, the standards for human trials were far less stringent. In the 1950s, the success of "wonder drugs" such as antibiotics and cortisone had ...

Osteoporosis associated with chronic steroid therapy, appears to be an important medical problem. In the USA, glucocorticoids are prescribed to 1 million patients a year. Data from the UK reveal ...

Aging Health. 2012;8(5):471-477. Osteoporosis associated with chronic glucocorticoid therapy appears to be an important medical problem, which may often be underestimated. Glucocorticosteroids ...