Corticosteroids
Glucocorticoids are primary stress hormones that regulate a variety of physiologic processes and are essential for life. The actions of glucocorticoids are predominantly mediated through the classic glucocorticoid receptor (GR)….
The History of Cortisone Discovery and Development
Philip Hench, Edward Kendall, and Tadeus Reichstein received the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology in 1950 for their “investigations of the hormones of the adrenal cortex.” Hench and Kendall…
Corticosteroids: Friends and Foes
Marcy B. Bolster, MD, Editor Corticosteroids have been a mainstay of treatment employed by rheumatologists since the Nobel Prize–winning discovery of cortisone in 1950 by Drs Hench, Kendall, and Reichstein….
Corticosteroids
Michael H. Weisman, MD, Consulting Editor Nowhere is there more controversy in rheumatic diseases than the role of corticosteroids, and that is the reason for the development of this issue….
