Health & Science

How do the vaccines boost immunity? Do people who’ve had the virus even need a dose? WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk asked about the research.

From South Carolina to Washington, states are requesting the Biden administration send them only a fraction of what's been allocated to them.

Since COVID-19 took hold, mental health experts say, more adolescents and young adults have sought help to combat their eating disorders.

Having trouble figuring out where to get vaccinated in Pa? Now, there’s a new and improved app to help you.

Since Jan. 20, more than 200,000 Delawareans signed up for the vaccine through the state’s waiting list. Now, as interest has waned, the list is ending.

A.I. is part of our everyday lives. We'll discuss our relationship with it and look at where the technology is headed.

The state Health Department said Friday it will use vaccines.gov as its mapping source effective immediately.

Energy fuels our lives in ways that seem almost magical. It can transform darkness into light, cold into warmth, water into ice. Of cours ...

How close are scientists to developing fusion energy? And what are the roadblocks standing in the way?

Years of research powered electric car batteries, yet questions remain to be answered.

Activists and humanitarian institutions cheered after the U.S. reversed course Wednesday and called for a waiver of intellectual property protections on the vaccine.

The report uses a worst-case scenario climate model, with no assumed solutions, to make its projections.

N.J. has launched a website where homebound residents or their caregivers can request an in-home COVID-19 vaccination. The state’s call center can also assist.

Experts warn that a “substantial increase” in hospitalizations and deaths is possible if unvaccinated people do not follow basic precautions such as wearing a mask.

These appointments can only be used for the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, or the single-shot dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.