{"id":8692,"date":"2020-06-19T18:33:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8692"},"modified":"2020-06-19T18:33:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:03:16","slug":"dexamethasone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/dexamethasone\/","title":{"rendered":"Dexamethasone"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Science<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2020-06\/processed\/dexamethasone_getty_news_1024.jpg\" alt=\"What You Need to Know About Dexamethasone, The 'New' COVID-19 Drug\" \/><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers leading a major clinical trial in the UK announced that the drug dexamethasone had been found to cut death rates by around a third in the most severely ill among Covid-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Dexamethasone is a corticosteroid,<\/strong> an easily available medicine that prevents the release of substances in the body that cause inflammation. Its effects are frequently seen within a day, and last for about three days.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>The drug is used when there is any inflammation in the body due to infection or injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The low-cost, anti-inflammatory steroid is well known in the world of sport. Dexamethasone has been used for years by sportspersons to hasten their rehabilitation from injuries and recover from infections.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The drug is on the World Anti-Doping Agency\u2019s (WADA\u2019s) list of prohibited substances. Athletes are, however, barred from using dexamethasone only during competition \u2014 meaning, if the substance is detected prior to a competition, it will not be considered a doping offence.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The \u201c<strong>first drug to be shown to improve survival\u201d<\/strong> in the pandemic was hailed by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as \u201cthe biggest breakthrough yet\u201d in the fight against the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Science &nbsp; Why in news? Researchers leading a major clinical trial in the UK announced that the drug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-8692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8693,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions\/8693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}