Ajai Chari, MD, argued that more is not always better. More intense treatment regimens, or those with more drugs, don't ...

The prescribed dosage for dexamethasone may vary depending on a person’s individual treatment plan. Factors such as your medical history and body weight may also affect your dosage of dexamethasone.

Let’s look specifically at dexamethasone, a common corticosteroid in emergency medicine, and use current research to describe what the drug does and look at select situations in prehospital care ...

The Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit has sanctioned Tampa Bay Downs-based trainer Scooter Davis after one of his horses tested positive for the corticosteroid dexamethasone after a March 15 ...

Corticosteroid therapy must be tapered because of its interactions with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. The hypothalamus secretes corticotropin releasing factor, which acts ...

The intraocular pressure effect of fluorometholone 0.1% was compared with that of dexamethasone 0.1% by performing corticosteroid provocative tests on 24 matched pairs of eyes. Fifteen of the 24 ...

Phenytoin, an antiepileptic medication frequently prescribed for seizure prophylaxis in patients following neurosurgery, has been shown to decrease the serum half-life of dexamethasone by ...

1State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, Institute of Hematology and Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese ...