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 ...

The drug is cheap and widely available, meaning it can be rolled out quickly to poorer communities hit by the disease. Researchers from Oxford University announced that the drug dexamethasone can cut ...

A British trial showing that a common steroid could reduce deaths in severe COVID-19 cases by one-third was good news for Minnesota physicians who have been battling the infectious disease without a ...

Intravitreal dexamethasone implants stabilized, but did not improve, vision for most patients with macular edema due to retinal vein occlusion (RVO). Intravitreal dexamethasone implants were found to ...

Dexamethasone may help save up to one-third of patients on ventilators. As the world awaits a COVID-19 vaccine, researchers studying possible treatments have found a commonly used steroid called ...