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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...