Health & Science

The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems.

In many parts of the U.S., case numbers are going up, and much of that increase is being driven by subvariants of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Since 2019, Philadelphians have competed in the City Natural Challenge by logging species of plants and animals. The records are quite useful for scientists.

Scientists, archaeologists, and historians are documenting stories from those buried and uncovered at the former First Baptist Church cemetery site.

Health care workers rallied alongside elected officials and community members just outside Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland.

More than two years into the pandemic, state leaders gathered with friends and a family who’ve lost loved ones to remember the victims of COVID-19.

NJ’s top trauma centers are laying out plans for the $550 million lawmakers sent them.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says it is putting all its guidance under the microscope to eliminate “race-based” medicine and resulting health disparities.

Eight townships — Springfield, Tinicum, Ridley, Upper Chichester, Aston, Darby, Marple, and Middletown — have joined forces to be exempt from county health inspections.

The patient is an inmate involved in the culling of poultry that was presumptively infected with H5N1 bird flu at a commercial farm.

The meeting announcement follows months of frustration from families impatient for a chance to vaccinate their little children.

Around the world, at dawn, something magical happens. As the sun rises, nature seems to wake up, and different species break into a choru ...

Conservationists from the New Jersey Audubon Society have worked for nearly a decade to track and conserve the endangered bog turtle.

The decline in new specimens is especially noticeable in the study of mammals. One journal article called it a “perfect storm” for the field.

Writer Caleb Johnson visited E.O. Wilson in February of 2020, where he spoke to the late scientist about his views on biodiversity, conservation — and the end of life.