Health & Science

At a virtual town hall hosted by WHYY, direct engagement was seen as key to helping overcome mistrust of the country’s racist medical history.

The new travel order will require passengers to wear face masks on nearly all forms of public transportation, including planes, ships, trains, subways, buses and taxis.

The gap is deeply troubling to some, given that the coronavirus has taken a disproportionate toll in severe sickness and death on Black people in the U.S.

The Navajo Nation has lifted a strict weekend curfew that has been in place for months to expand COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

At an indoor press conference in the lobby of his Fishtown apartment building Friday, a maskless Andrei Doroshin blamed everyone but himself.

Area homeless shelters and outreach workers are gearing up to try to get people safely indoors.

Philly Counts, the city’s census outreach team, will now be working on COVID-19 vaccine distribution and education.

Three people, including a child under the age of 10, are the first in Delaware to contract the more contagious U.K. variant of COVID-19.

The state has now administered more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine than it has had positive cases since the pandemic began.

A five-month analysis by Spotlight PA found large fluctuations in the number of tests administered and unexplained changes to the death count.

J&J said Friday that in the U.S. and seven other countries, the single-shot vaccine was 66% effective overall at preventing moderate to severe illness.

When we think of “the future,” it sounds like something abstract and faraway — we imagine new inventions, cutting-edge innovations, ...

It is the job of futurists to think about what the future holds. We can use those skills in our lives too.

High rates of heart disease have meant higher COVID-19 infection rates for Black Americans. A pilot program aims to provide mentorship to medical trainees.

Here’s a look, in brief, at the quick fall from grace for the COVID testing and vaccinating start-up and its CEO.