Health & Science

“If everybody else is doing something differently, at a certain point it puts a significant amount of pressure on our business community,” said Gov Phil Murphy Monday.

There's room for dangerous misunderstanding when doctors and public health officials talk to diverse groups about COVID-19. Health literacy projects aim to dispel confusion.

Some people feel stressed: How can you know who is fully vaccinated? WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk offers a guide to the CDC’s mask guidance.

Hospitals are full. Testing is scant. Illiteracy is high. Most deaths aren't registered. COVID's wrath in rural India is difficult to measure but health experts are worried.

The events are part of “Operation Jersey Summer,” a statewide campaign focused on getting all eligible people who live, work, or study in New Jersey to get the jab.

The shortcomings of the test kits cost the nation precious weeks as officials sought to detect virus hotspots and manage the outbreak.

New Jersey is expected to lift its indoor mask rules for fully vaccinated people by the start of Memorial Day weekend.

The Phillies game on Friday night will mark the first sporting event in the city where masks will no longer be required outdoors.

There’s long been an idea that sharing our DNA for research benefits the greater good — that it leads to new insights, new medication ...

For decades, slavery created challenges for Black Americans trying to trace their roots. DNA ancestry tests might reveal new answers.

Pennsylvania could have almost 70% of adults fully vaccinated in about three to four weeks.

Pennsylvania is firing a company that performed COVID-19 contact tracing and exposed the private medical information of tens of thousands of residents, state officials said.

As if the spotted lanternfly invasion weren't bad enough.

In N.J., a vaccination card can now get you a free glass of wine, a free season pass to a state park, and a chance to win dinner with the governor and his wife.

The gift will fund expansion of the delivery unit, creation of a birth defects biorepository, and a position in pediatric surgical science.