Health & Science

Officials are optimistic that with vaccinations ramping up slowly but steadily, the number of infected people needing inpatient treatment will keep dropping.

Amid falling infection numbers, Philadelphia passed a bleak milestone with more than 3,000 people dead from the new coronavirus.

Studies are raising concern that first-generation COVID-19 vaccines don’t work as well against a mutant that first emerged in South Africa as they do against other versions.

The field of home health care has suffered added pressures during the pandemic. Experts caution that the vaccine rollout will not solve underlying issues around wages.

The WHO’s green light for the AstraZeneca vaccine is only the second one the U.N. health agency has issued after authorizing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in December.

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Philly area employers thought encouraging workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 would be a challenge. That turned out to be the easy part.

A disorganized rollout has presented some people with that ethical quandary. WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk heard several points of view.

The numbers have been especially stark for colon and breast cancer-screening rates, which dropped by 90% at the height of the pandemic.

The Biden administration's virus response plan calls for opening 100 federally supported vaccination sites by the end of February.

Even when forced online by the pandemic, music therapy sessions continue to help patients in some ways talk therapy can't. "Music is this portal," says one therapist.

Think twice if you’re spending this Valentine’s Day-plus-Presidents Day moment in close contact with friends and loved ones, the CDC says.

The move comes amid a broader tightening of rules and regulations around vaccine distribution.

Social media networks and online research skills give some younger people an edge, even as older people overall face higher risk of hospitalization and death.

Essential workers have played a critical role to keep our lives and economy going during the pandemic. Why haven't we given them the pay and protections that they deserve?