Health & Science

Wild demand swings have been a subplot in the pandemic, from vaccines to hand sanitizer, along with tests.

Recent polls show the country close to evenly split over mask mandates — mostly along party lines.

The CDC loosened its mask guidelines Friday — and Pennsylvania’s Acting Secretary of Health Keara Klinepeter says the state will likely follow.

The CDC's shift reflects a substantial drop in COVID-19 cases nationwide.

The federal health agency released new guidance for when Americans need to mask up indoors, saying about 70% of the population lives where it's safe to go mask-free.

The human brain has an incredible capacity for processing information, from sensory data, to casual conversations, to everything we hear ...

Under the new guidelines, the vast majority of Americans will no longer live in areas where indoor masking in public is recommended based on current data.

Two years after the first COVID-19 case reported in the Garden State, Gov. Phil Murphy will end regular scheduled briefings on March 4.

The western U.S. is already seeing more blazes, and the likelihood of catastrophic wildfires globally could increase more than 50% by the turn of the century.

At this point, one thing about the pandemic is clear: The COVID-19 vaccines, even when followed by a booster, aren't going to stop the coronavirus.

Hundreds of thousands of nursing home workers have quit since the pandemic began, and the ones still working suffer from burnout.

Early research from Denmark shows this type of the virus spreads more easily. But there are still a lot of questions.

Where is the line between personal and professional opinions? And is that line different for high-level executives?

Dr. Paul Farmer, global health champion, Harvard Medical School professor, anthropologist and co-founder of the nonprofit health organization Partners in Health, has died.

Washington was the first state in the U.S. to introduce a public option for health insurance, but the rollout hasn't been smooth.