Steroids Prevented Lung Damage After 9/11

MedPage Today: "A prophylactic course of inhaled corticosteroids may protect the lungs of disaster workers inadvertently exposed to airborne dust particles, a researcher said here. Firefighters in New York who took inhaled budesonide starting two weeks after the World Trade Center attacks had better lung function and quality of life a year and a half later than did those who did not take the drug, according to David Prezant, M.D., of the New York fire department and Montefiore Medical Center. "