The keenly-awaited full results from a UK trial of the steroid dexamethasone were published Friday, confirming its life-saving benefits for COVID-19 patients on ventilators but suggesting it may cause harm if given too early. A total of 2,104 hospitalized patients were assigned to receive...

Iran reported 183 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus on Friday, raising the nationwide death toll to 13,791. A further 2,379 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the overall count to 269,440, Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said. She...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced 3 billion pounds in funding Friday to help the country’s health service cope with a possible second wave of the coronavirus this winter. The money will allow the state-funded National Health Service to buy up space in private hospitals and...

India on Friday became the third country in the world to record one million coronavirus cases, following Brazil and the United States where infections also continued to surge. The virus has killed more than 588,000 people and infected nearly 14 million around the world since first being...