Dexamethasone

Taiwan provisionally approved the use of dexamethasone, a cheap and widely-used steroid, to treat the new coronavirus, as the island faces a shortfall of the antiviral drug remdesivir

Japan’s health ministry has approved dexamethasone, a cheap and widely used steroid, as a second treatment of COVID-19

The keenly-awaited full results from a UK trial of the steroid dexamethasone were published Friday, confirming its life-saving benefits for COVID-19 patients on ventilators.

They compared 2,104 coronavirus patients who received dexamethasone with 4,321 patients who did not

The otherwise widely available cheap medicine is being sold for Rs1,000 to Rs1,500 per packet

The DRAP issued an advisory regarding the Dexamethasone and directed pharmacies to sale the injection only on prescription by the doctors.

Wholesale Chemist Council of Pakistan President Muhammad Atif Hanif has blamed pharmaceutical companies for the shortage and hike in the price of dexamethasone drug.

A cheap steroid dexamethasone that can help save the lives of patients with severe COVID-19 should be reserved for serious cases, WHO said

A recovered COVID-19 patient on Wednesday revealed that 'miracle' drug dexamethasone 'saved his life'.

Researchers in Britain said dexamethasone, used to fight inflammation in other diseases, reduced death rates of the most severely ill COVID-19 patients