Prof Peter Horby, who led the UK research on dexamethasone, said the use of steroids to treat viral respiratory infections, such as Covid-19, has been controversial. Trials of the drugs during ...

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.

The coronavirus drugs prescribed to Donald Trump indicate that the president may be battling a more severe case of Covid-19 than the White House is letting on, according to infectious disease experts.

Some indications suggest that Covid in 2025 is a milder disease ... but this is now no longer considered necessary. While steroids such as dexamethasone are still used in certain severe cases ...