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• n  a corticosteroid drug (trade names Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to treat allergies or inflammation

• PREEMIE PROBLEM Giving the steroid dexamethasone to premature babies helps free them early from a ventilator but increases their risk of infection and can slow their growth.

• Decadron
• Dexamethasone Intensol
• Dexone
• Hexadrol
• Oradexon

News & Articles

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• Bristol-Myers Squibb and AbbVie Announce Progression-Free Survival Data from Phase 2 Open-Label Study of ...
  Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and AbbVie today announced updated efficacy and safety data from a small, randomized Phase 2, open-label study in patients with previously-treated multiple myeloma that evaluated two doses of the investigational monoclonal antibody elotuzumab in combination with lenalidomide and low-dose dexamethasone.
  June 15, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Dr Rajkumar in Genetic Engineering News (press release)
  The lower survival rates with the high dose dexamethasone can be attributed to disease progression as well as treatment-related toxicities,said S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center hematologist and lead investigator of the...