An anti-inflammatory drug called dexamethasone has been hailed as a ground-breaking treatment for hospital patients seriously ill with Covid-19. A UK trial showed the drug could save lives - the ...

A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the ...

Currently, the drug dexamethasone is still the only therapeutic shown to be effective against the novel coronavirus for severe patients, the chief of the World Health Organization said Friday.

Dexamethasone has become the drug of choice for treating severely ill coronavirus patients in Kenyan hospitals. The first clinical study to be published by the Ministry of Health on the treatment ...

European regulators have begun a speedy review of dexamethasone as a treatment for adults hospitalised with COVID-19, a potentially cheaper option to aid recovery than Gilead’s Veklury.

PETALING JAYA: Dexamethasone, which is used for pneumonia patients, is more effective in treating Covid-19 than remdesivir and the HIV/AIDS drugs lopinavir or ritonavir, says Health director ...

Medically reviewed by Geetika Gupta, MD People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at a higher risk for infections, including ...

For the sickest individuals, doctors can prescribe dexamethasone, a cheap steroid that's been shown to significantly reduce mortality among critically ill COVID-19 patients. A recent analysis from ...

Dexamethasone has improved survival rates in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. More targeted anti-cytokine approaches, using monoclonal antibodies against the cytokines Interleukin-1 (IL-1 ...

MOSCOW, June 1. /TASS/. Dexamethasone, a drug used by the UK medics, is not a breakthrough in treatment of the coronavirus, the drug panacea for this infection has not been created yet ...

But during the pandemic, some doctors anecdotally began noticing that some people with cancer who got very sick with COVID-19 saw their tumors shrink or grow more slowly. “We didn’t know if it ...