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 ...

A major UK clinical trial has shown that adding the corticosteroid dexamethasone to standard antiviral treatment for ...

Weekly demand in the U.S. is up more than 600%. Last week, a study in the U.K. found that dexamethasone, a common steroid, increased survival in severely ill COVID-19 patients who needed help ...

An inexpensive, decades-old steroid appears to help some of the sickest COVID-19 patients survive, according to early results from a study conducted in hospitals in the UK. The data, which are only ...

15:18, Wed, Jun 17, 2020 Updated: 14:42, Tue, Jul 21, 2020 Announcing NHS approval for dexamethasone, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “Guided by the science, the UK is leading the way in the ...