News: Heart function normal after early steroid exposure 
    (Reuters)

Heart function normal after early steroid exposure      (Reuters)
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by team on 25 August, 2008 06:17:57
 
Reuters - Steroid treatment given  immediately before or after birth to reduce
the rate and  severity of chronic lung disease does not appear to harm  cardiac
function in children later on, according to a review of  published studies by
Dutch researchers.