medical diagnostic and pharmaceutical preparations including steroid hormone compound(s), dehydroepiandrosterone derivatives and salts, for testing and treatment of human and non-human animal respiratory, central nervous system, immune, endocrine, neoplastic and cardiovascular ailments, including bronchoconstriction, anxiety, pre menstrual syndrome, menopause symptoms, anxiety, lack of sleep, aggressive or socially inappropriate behaviour, difficult breathing, impeded and obstructed lung airways, allergy(ies) and/or inflammation, respiratory airway and pulmonary diseases and conditions, such as asthma, pulmonary vascoconstriction, inflammation, allergies, impeded respiration, acute respiratory disease syndrome (ARDS), renal damage and failure, ischemia resulting from the administration of certain drugs, including adenosine and other drugs for, for example, treating SupraVentricular Tachycardia (SVT), adenosine stress tests, infantile Respiratory Distress Syndrome infantile ARDS, pain cystic fibrosis, allergic rhinitis, allergic bronchitis, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary vascoconstriction, emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as well as cancers including leukemias, lymphomas, carcinomas, and the like, eg colon cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, kidney cancer, melanoma, etc, as well as metastic cancers, eg, cancers which metastasized to the lung(s), breast, liver and prostate