methylprednisolone (A-METHAPRED, DEPO-MEDROL, MEDROL, SOLU-MEDROL)

Dexamethasone: A Marginally Beneficial Treatment for Severe COVID-19
December 2020
In this article, we review the results of randomized clinical trials showing that the anti-inflammatory corticosteroid dexamethasone reduces the risk of death in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who require supplemental oxygen or mechanical ventilation.

News Brief for May 2018
May 2018
In this month’s News Brief, we report the sentencing of the former supervisory pharmacist at the now-shuttered New England Compounding Center located in Framingham, Massachusetts to eight years in prison for his role in the deadly nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 that had been linked to tainted steroid drugs made by the company.

Macrolide Antibiotic Drug Interactions
February 2008
The article discusses the adverse drug interactions between either of two widely-prescribed macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin (as in ERYTHROCIN) and clarithromycin (BIAXIN)and more than 40 other drugs that are listed in a table in the article. It also describes the nature of the adverse interactions that can occur.