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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Trump started a course of the steroid dexamethasone on Saturday after a drop in blood oxygen levels, his doctor Sean Conley said. The drug treats the symptoms of COVID-19 by targeting the ...