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prednisolone (FLO-PRED, ORAPRED, PRELONE)


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dexamethasone (DECADRON, HEMADY, HEXADROL, MYMETHASONE); hydrocortisone [oral] (CORTEF, HYDROCORTONE, SOLU-CORTEF); methylprednisolone (A-METHAPRED, DEPO-MEDROL, MEDROL, SOLU-MEDROL); prednisolone (FLO-PRED, ORAPRED, PRELONE); prednisone (DELTASONE, PREDNISONE INTENSOL, RAYOS)

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Steroid Treatment for COPD Exacerbations: Five Days Just as Effective as 14 Days
October 2013
If you or a loved one has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sometimes known as emphysema, and suffers from periodic acute COPD exacerbations requiring steroids, you should know that new research demonstrates that a five-day course of steroids for treating such exacerbations works just as well as a conventional 14-day course.
Update on Grapefruit Juice-Drug Interactions
July 2012
This article updates and expands our earlier list of drugs that can have harmful interactions with grapefruit juice. The list now includes 82 different drugs.
Corticosteroid Drug Interactions
November 2010
This article discusses 36 drugs that, when used by people also using a corticosteroid, can either cause toxic interactions with the steroid or decrease the steroid's effectiveness.
Drug-induced Cognitive Impairment: Part 2: Delirium and Dementia
April 2009
This second article about drug-induced dementia or delirium lists and discusses an additional 79 drugs that can cause these reversible kinds of mental deterioration. The two articles collectively review 136 drugs that can cause these serious side effects, especially in older people.
Drug-Induced Eye Toxicity: 62 Drugs That Can Cause Eye Disease
April 2008
This article, based on a recent review in Drug Safety, lists 62 prescription drugs that can cause eye disease. The range of drug-induced eye diseases includes diseases of the eyelids, glaucoma, cataracts, retinal damage and optic nerve damage. As is true for drug-induced diseases in other parts of the body, you should consider newly developed eye symptoms beginning shortly after starting a new medication to be possibly drug-induced and consult a physician.
Drug Induced Psychiatric Symptoms
October 2002
This is the first of a two part series on drug induced psychiatric symptoms that is based on the July 8, 2002 issue of The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics. Regular readers of Worst Pills, Best Pills News will recognize The Medical Letter as a reference source written for physicians and pharmacists that we often use because of its reputation as an objective and independent source of drug information. The article lists the drugs and their psychiatric adverse effects.

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