Dexamethasone is a type of medicine known as a corticosteroid. These medicines are man-made versions of the corticosteroid hormones, cortisol and aldosterone, produced naturally by the adrenal glands.

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 ...

President Donald Trump was given a dose of the steroid dexamethasone in the course of his coronavirus treatment, his medical team said Sunday. But what is dexamethasone? Dexamethasone has been shown ...

Dexamethasone is a cheap and widely available corticosteroid that is used to head off an immune system overreaction and treat inflammation. The steroid has shown to increase the survival rates of ...

Earlier this week, President Trump returned to the White House after a three-day stay at Walter Reed Medical Center following his COVID-19 diagnosis, prompting concerns from many in the medical ...

A low-cost steroid may save the lives of some people who are on ventilators or supplemental oxygen because of COVID-19, preliminary data from a large clinical trial suggest. Dexamethasone, a steroid ...

President Donald Trump's condition has continued to improve since being taken to the hospital Friday due to symptoms from a COVID-19 infection, White House physician Sean Conley told reporters on ...

Researchers say that dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, is the first drug to be shown to improve COVID-19 survival. The study, which the Associated Presspoints out is the same one that previously ...

A paper published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests a low-cost steroid may be a valuable treatment for severe COVID-19, building upon encouraging preliminary findings from last ...

President Donald Trump was given a dose of the steroid dexamethasone in the course of his coronavirus treatment, his medical team said Sunday. Trump was given the steroid Saturday after suffering a ...