Sentence examples for instead of steroids from inspiring English sources

They accepted that the blue pills, "the innocent color of robins' eggs," were vitamins instead of steroids.

Instead of steroids and cyclosporine, the Edmonton team used a combination of three other antirejection drugs, tacrolimus, sirolimus and daclimuzab.

Since there is no easily administered test for human growth hormone, there is a theory that at least some players may be using that substance instead of steroids because they know they cannot be caught.

They were proposed for the short-term prophylaxis at the beginning of the cluster period instead of steroids (defined also as transitional therapy) or for the short-term prophylaxis of mini cluster.

However, some patients received monoclonal antibodies instead of steroids during an acute rejection episode, which may explain the observed differences.

Then, the group was split into 38 patients receiving a tapered course of prednisolone and advice on healthy eating and 40 patients receiving placebo instead of steroid.

Patients who are no longer responding to anti-TNF or other steroid-sparing therapy may have their primary therapies more closely monitored and better titrated to treatment response instead of having steroids added to their regimen or steroid therapy prolonged to manage disease flares.

Instead of treating steroids as a civil rights issue akin to secondhand smoke -- as in, the presence of a steroid-loaded athlete presents a physical danger and contract disadvantage to nonusers -- the union came up with a drug-testing charade.

Multiple centres elected to use immunomodulator drugs instead of low-dose steroids for maintenance therapy (n=5).

The survival benefit in IPF-AE patients treated with broad spectrum antimicrobials instead of high dose steroids shown in the present study could be attributed to the fact that they militate the role that microbial populations play in the pathogenesis of such a condition.

The N.F.L. is forbidden under the terms of the drug-testing agreement with the players union from announcing what substance players have tested positive for — the urine test does not distinguish among types of amphetamines — and there is some suspicion that at least a few players may claim they took Adderall instead of admitting to steroid use, which carries a far greater stigma.