Pharmaceutical preparations, namely, steroid hormone compound(s), including dehydroepiandrosterone derivatives and salts, for medical use, in the treatment of human and non-human animal respiratory, central nervous system, immune, endocrine, neoplastic and cardiovascular conditions, including bronchoconstriction, anxiety, Pre Menstrual Syndrome, Menopause symptoms, anxiety, lack of sleep, aggressive or ostensibly socially inappropriate behavior, difficult breathing, impeded and obstructed lung airways, allergy(ies) and/or inflammation, pharmaceutical preparations for testing, preventing and therapeutically treating immune, central nervous system, endocrine, neoplastic, cardiovascular, respiratory, airway and pulmonary diseases and conditions, such as asthma, pulmonary vasoconstriction, inflammation, allergies, asthma, impeded respiration, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), renal damage and failure, ischemia, associated with 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 RDS), pain, cystic fibrosis, allergic rhinitis, allergic bronchitis, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary vasoconstriction, 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 all metastatic cancers, eg cancers which metastasized to the lung(s), breast and prostate included