Health

FDA approved the controversial Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab. We'll talk with Penn Memory Center's Dr. Jason Karlawish about the decision and the state of Alzheimer's research.

If you’re living in a part of Trenton, Camden, or Atlantic City with low vaccination rates, you might get a knock on your door this week from a state volunteer.

There will be three drawings in June and July, with the first one on June 21. There is a total of $400,000 in giveaways, including cash prizes.

The Food and Drug Administration said it granted approval to the drug developed by Biogen for patients with Alzheimer's disease.

As the county aims for a health department launch in 2022, local nonprofits are using the grant money to address health and dental care needs in children.

How will we reset the pandemic radar on the job? With friends? While dating? WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk asked about the office fridge, handshakes, and more.

Instead of putting genetic instructions into people whose cells then make a viral protein, the vaccines from Novavax, Medicago and Sanofi carry a spike protein payload.

Biden used his weekly address for a brief Zoom chat with Obama to draw attention to the six-month expanded enrollment period that closes Aug. 15.

Saturday marks the first of two awareness days in June that honor people who live with HIV/AIDS, four decades after the first cases of AIDS were reported by the CDC.

Gov. Murphy signed a bill Friday drawing down over 100 executive orders enacted since March 2020. Bans on evictions, utility shut-offs remain.

The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world — and that spending is going up every year. In some re ...

Trikafta costs $360,000 a year per cystic fibrosis patient, a big price the government has hesitated to approve.

Births are a high-risk, low-return part of the health business. The city’s hospitals rallied together a decade ago. Is a new challenge ahead?

A lack of diversity has persisted for years in the U.S, limiting patients' access to potentially effective new drugs and therapies.

Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday that smaller sites can handle the dwindling demand for vaccines.