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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dexamethasone, a potent steroid medication, is in the news as a possible treatment for people with Covid-19. A June 2020 press release for the UK-based RECOVERY clinical trial announced that ...

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 ...

To treat his Covid-19, President Trump has started receiving dexamethasone, a common steroid that has been shown to be helpful in people with severe cases of the disease but that doctors warn should ...

One of the physicians treating President Donald Trump, Dr. Brian Garibaldi, said Sunday the President is being given the steroid drug dexamethasone as part of his Covid-19 treatment. It’s an ...