Steroid safety under review
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The Public Health Unit in Luxembourg has asked for more information after receiving a 2,000 signature petition from Group Action into Steroid Prescribing [Gasp]. The group believes that one type of the drug - cortico-steroids, which are popular with asthma sufferers - has caused several deaths and thousands of injuries. Art McConnell, whose nine-year-old daughter, Lexie, died from chickenpox after being prescribed the cortico-steroid drug Prednisolone for an eye infection in 1992, said: "[The drug] has to be much more closely supervised and probably on a restricted list. Steroids are being issued without any warnings."
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