How to Use dexamethasone in a Sentence

dexamethasone

noun
  • But dexamethasone can stop this immune response to protect the body.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 29 June 2020
  • Trump’s dexamethasone treatment indicates that one of two things are true.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The flare model used mice whose arthritis was suppressed with the steroid dexamethasone, then stopped to mimic a flare-up.
    — New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2025
  • And doctors have one good tool to prevent death – the steroid dexamethasone – which is cheap, effective and easy to use.
    — USA Today, 14 Mar. 2021
  • He was given the anti-viral drug remdesivir along with the steroid dexamethasone.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Regardless, the study may help explain why the steroid dexamethasone is so helpful to some patients.
    — Emma Yasinski, Science | AAAS, 17 Mar. 2021
  • But where and how dexamethasone counters such damage was not clear from the British trial results.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2020
  • Here is a study about dexamethasone, and a more recent editorial about its use.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2020
  • But dexamethasone can be helpful in the treatment of many conditions.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Doctors know that the steroid dexamethasone gets people out of the hospital quicker.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 10 Aug. 2020
  • One of the drugs among the array of possible treatments being tested is the steroid dexamethasone.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Treatments like the steroid dexamethasone and the antiviral drug Remdesivir seem to help.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Use of drugs such as remdesivir, which shortens the recovery time for some of the sickest patients, and the steroid dexamethasone have helped as well.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2020
  • One of the more effective drugs against Covid-19, a steroid named dexamethasone, is for very sick patients.
    — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Notably, these patients are not sick enough to receive drugs such as remdesivir or dexamethasone, Fauci said.
    — NBC News, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Eighty-two percent of patients in the tocilizumab portion of the study all received dexamethasone or a similar steroid.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 12 Feb. 2021
  • My question is, can the dexamethasone injection affect the lab test and give a false negative result?
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 5 May 2023
  • Over the past six months, doctors have found that steroids, and in particular one called dexamethasone, can dampen these reactions.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Trump is still at a stage in his illness in which a patient would likely be contagious, and as of Monday was still taking dexamethasone.
    — Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • That includes the steroid dexamethasone, which limits the deadly cycle of inflammation the virus can trigger in the lungs.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2021
  • Research proved the effectiveness of drugs such as the antiviral remdesivir and the steroid dexamethasone.
    — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
  • One piece of evidence is that the steroid dexamethasone, which broadly suppresses the immune system, can reduce the death rate.
    — Gina Kolata, Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
  • The president will continue taking his five-day course of remdesivir, an antiviral drug, as well as the steroid dexamethasone.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Other treatments, such as the steroid dexamethasone, have been shown to save lives by tamping down the immune system’s overactive response to the virus.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 17 June 2021
  • That is why steroids such as dexamethasone, which weaken the immune system, improve outcomes among severely ill patients late in the course of the disease.
    — Tom Frieden, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Only 50% of the patients treated with dexamethasone had the virus in their hearts, compared with 90% of patients who were not on the drug.
    — Emma Yasinski, Science | AAAS, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Another drug that may help is dexamethasone, the CDC says, a corticosteroid that will rapidly decrease the brain swelling involved here.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Remdesivir, also known as Veklury, and the steroid dexamethasone are the only drugs authorized to treat Covid-19 patients.
    — NBC News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • In the United States, dexamethasone already has been used to treat some Covid-19 patients during the pandemic.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 16 June 2020
  • Steroids Steroids like prednisone, methylprednisolone, and dexamethasone help calm inflammation.
    — Karen Berger, Verywell Health, 9 Dec. 2025

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