A full study testing dexamethasone — a cheap, widely available steroid — as a treatment for COVID-19 found that the drug reduced mortality rates among patients on ventilators or who were receiving ...

Reduction in the number of days seriously ill coronavirus patients are on mechanical ventilation can reduce respiratory complications. Dexamethasone treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis, caused by HSV types 1 and 2, is the most common sporadic viral encephalitis worldwide, with an annual incidence of around 2·2–4·6 per million people.1 Before ...

Author(s)Kumar SK, Buadi FK, LaPlant B, et al. Phase 1/2 trial of ixazomib, cyclophosphamide, dexamethasone in patients with previously untreated symptomatic multiple myeloma. Blood Cancer J. 2018, ...

COVID-19 patients who took the anti-inflammatory steroid dexamethasone while hooked up to oxygen at a hospital had “significantly reduced” odds of dying there or going into hospice care, a study has ...

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vizient, Inc. today shared data showing a 610% increase in demand by its member hospitals for dexamethasone, a commonly used corticosteroid, in the week since the ...