Health & Science

N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy offered a “Memorial Day to 4th of July window” to vaccinate the state’s target of 4.7 million adults.

Some providers administered first doses of Moderna vaccine that was meant to be dedicated to people receiving their second dose, the state said Wednesday.

Is the voice in your head too critical? Does it make you more anxious instead of less? Psychologist Ethan Kross discusses how to control our self-talk.

Organizations around Philadelphia will have to nearly triple the pace of vaccination to achieve the goal.

Even after getting one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, some people are having trouble getting their second shot. Here's how to maximize the likelihood you'll get both doses.

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.