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, ...

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 ...

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 encephalitis (brain inflammation), caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV) does not ...