Dexamethasone reduced mortality among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, especially those who were also receiving respiratory support.

In ventilated patients in particular, giving the steroid reduced deaths by one-third in the RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY) trial. And patients on supplemental oxygen who received ...

The health ministry has approved the steroid drug dexamethasone for treating COVID-19 patients after it proved effective in a British clinical trial. Dexamethasone, an anti-inflammatory ...

This would make sense as the steroid dexamethasone has already been shown ... acknowledged that the drug could be used against COVID-19 and further trials are warranted. “We will follow the ...

and steroids such as dexamethasone. People with RA are recommended to get vaccinated. Vaccination can help reduce the risks and severity of coronavirus infection. The Centers for Disease Control ...

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.

It could be used with other Covid treatments, such as the cheap steroid dexamethasone, to save even more lives, researchers say. That might halve deaths. The NHS may soon recommend baricitinib ...

By that point, new treatments had been discovered, including the cheap steroid dexamethasone, and the first Covid vaccines were starting to be rolled out in small numbers. But the level of ...

London, June 17 () The UK government on Wednesday authorised the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) to use steroid dexamethasone, the "world's first" coronavirus treatment proven to reduce ...

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.