1.   Conventional treatment for skin rashes has included powerful topical steroids, antibiotics and Vitamin A. Brown and Dattner suggest the pot marigold as an herbal substitute.

2.   Hays later married, fathered a child and divorced, he said, and began using powerful steroids.

3.   It was developed by doctors in the former East Germany, who began experimenting on athletes with powerful steroids in a state-sanctioned effort to dominate athletics.

4.   Now, a year after daily treatment with thalidomide, combined with intermittent but potent doses of dexamethasone, a powerful steroid, they are zero.

5.   Prednisone, a powerful steroid, helps with joint pain but can make high blood pressure and kidney problems worse.