Health & Science

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.

Are we alone? Have alien spacecraft been buzzing across Earth's skies?

The decision comes after more than a year of hearings and increasingly heated debate on whether the community should host such a project.

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.

A public information session sought by the community laid out the details, and clarified who is responsible for cleanup of the contamination.

Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the first report that brought AIDS to the attention of the public.

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.