The drug, branded as Crenessity, is to be used together with glucocorticoid, a type of steroid, to control androgen levels in ...

Cortisol is a steroid hormone that regulates a wide range of body functions, including immunity, inflammation, and metabolism. Because of its role in regulating the stress response, people also ...

“Cortisol is a life sustaining hormone. We cannot survive without cortisol,” Dr. Anjanette Tan, an endocrinologist at the ...

Over a decade into selling Korlym to treat endogenous hypercortisolism, also known as Cushing syndrome, Corcept Therapeutics ...

The glucocorticoid cortisone is actually naturally present in the body as cortisol, a stress hormone ... good candidate as an anti-inflammatory drug, because it's unstable, and due to its high ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have been diagnosed with low cortisol and put on 15-mg hydrocortisone tablets daily for life by my endocrinologist. I was told that if I get sick with an infection, I should double ...

Queensland researchers have solved the century-old mystery of why patients who suffer severe spinal cord and brain injuries ...

Cortisol is a steroid hormone normally produced in times ... Phase 1 clinical studies demonstrated that the orally administered drug is safe and well tolerated in humans. And topline results ...

Four antiglucocorticoid drugs have been studied in ... of the metabolic pathways involved in steroid biosynthesis (Fig. 1). Metyrapone decreases cortisol production through its inhibitory effects ...

It is suggested that after the patient is tapered to a dose of 0.75 mg of dexamethasone per day, a morning cortisol level should be drawn to determine the steroid's effect on adrenal function.

Dear Dr. Roach: I have been diagnosed with low cortisol and put on 15-mg hydrocortisone tablets daily for life by my endocrinologist. I was told that if I get sick with an infection, I should ...