11.   Over the last decade, inhaled steroids have become a mainstay of medical treatment for asthma.

12.   Patients who are taking any kind of asthma medication, including inhaled steroids, should not stop without first consulting a doctor.

13.   Previous studies have found no link between inhaled steroids and cataracts in children.

14.   Schering-Plough Corp. said it won U.S. approval to sell the first inhaled steroid that can be used for prevention, as well as treatment, of allergies.

15.   Schering-Plough, based in Madison, N.J., is a leading supplier of asthma medication with its drugs Proventil and Vanceril, an inhaled steroid.

16.   Some patients have found inhaled steroids such as Vanceril helpful.

17.   The Childhood Asthma Management Program study also was designed to test the effectiveness of inhaled steroids in patients with mild to moderate asthma.

18.   The guidelines cautioned that although low doses of inhaled steroids are not a problem, high doses can result in bone loss.

19.   The study, which examined the prevalence of cataracts only in adults who used inhaled steroids, contradicted a previous smaller study.

20.   The treatment for wheezing is the same as that for asthma itself, the use of inhaled steroids, Martinez said.