Month: June 2017

Even Short-term Oral Steroids Carry Serious Risk

Short term use of oral corticosteroids and related harms among adults in the United States: population based cohort study BMJ 2017; 357 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j1415 (Published 12 April 2017)Cite this as: BMJ 2017;357:j1415 Cohort study of more than 1.5 million adults 30 days of initiating these drugs, even at relatively low...

Should we be giving our women steroids prior to elective caesarean section?

Delivery by elective caesarean section at less than 39+0 weeks of gestation can lead to respiratory morbidity in neonates, requiring admission to the neonatal intensive care unit A recent retrospective cohort study showed that, compared with elective caesarean section births at 39+0 weeks of gestation, births at 37+0 weeks...