Health & Science

The panel advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in setting vaccination recommendations for U.S. doctors and the general public.

The company's filing comes as new infections are rising once again, driven mainly by hot spots in states where colder weather is driving more Americans indoors.

Pfizer said it would grant a license for the pill to the Geneva-based Medicines Patent Pool, which would let generic drug companies produce the pill for use in 95 countries.

Studies at Rutgers and elsewhere are looking at possible links. The chemicals can cause serious health problems, including immune system effects.

Echoing Dr. Anthony Fauci, Persichilli said boosters are “not a bonus,” but an essential part in fighting the pandemic.

Ten years ago, anxiety, sleeplessness, stress, and migraines came as Crawford worked her way up to management. But in 2020, she learned to work for herself in a pandemic.

Seemingly anomalous COVID hot spots crop up, often where vaccination rates are high overall. Is there something localities can do to avoid it?

A shortage of primary care physicians is projected in New Jersey. A new program offers scholarships to low-income students to pursue those careers.

Southwest Philadelphia residents say warnings about health hazards from a junkyard fire needed to come sooner and more directly.

Harm reduction advocates criticized the policy, arguing that banning smoking in treatment would act as yet another obstacle to recovery.

The hosts are Sinora Allwood, RN, a holistic health nurse and health coach, and Dr. Jillian Lucas Baker, executive director of the Center of Parent and Teen Communication.

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More than 1,500 of the youngest eligible Delaware children have received their first Pfizer shot in less than a week. About 76,000 more can get vaccinated.

The contagious delta variant is driving up COVID-19 hospitalizations in the Mountain West and fueling disruptive outbreaks in the North.

Home kits are not as accurate as the PCR tests, but they have the advantage of giving results within minutes instead of days.