Health & Science

The administration says it plans to buy an additional 100 million doses each from both Moderna and from Pfizer, which has a vaccine with its German counterpart BioNTech.

Penn, Temple and Einstein are pivoting from Phase 1A, when they vaccinated their patient-facing staff, to Phase 1B, their most at-risk patients.

After PFC turned away people seeking vaccinations that day, friends of CEO Andrei Doroshin say they saw a Snapchat photo of him appearing to administer vaccine off-site.

Professor Roy Richard Grinker discusses how mental illness became stigmatized in America and our progress toward a culture more accepting of mental health differences.

During most of the time the group collected names on its COVIDReadi site, it did so without terms and conditions or a privacy policy.

As drug overdose deaths rise during the pandemic, a former White House economist says social isolation could be partly to blame.

The Health Department says it’s planning a new mass vaccination clinic.

New Castle County will become the newest National Health Corps site with AmeriCorps volunteers working to respond to COVID-19 and address inequities in health care.

A Black mother in New Jersey is seven times more likely than a white mother to die from maternity-related complications, according to the report.

Philadelphia says it has cut ties with the 9-month-old mass vaccine distributor over its sudden switch to a for-profit model and abrupt drop of community testing partners.

The surge in interest highlighted an imbalance that there is far more demand for the vaccine than there are doses in the Garden State.

The phone number for the state’s COVID-19 Vaccine Call Center is 855-568-0545.

The Wolf administration has yet to implement regulations stemming from a 2017 reform law intended to better protect recovery home residents and address community complaints.

The state aimed to vaccinate 11,500 seniors and 2,000 health care workers this weekend, but faced sharp criticism amid long lines and registration confusion.

How did they feel? Did they have side effects? WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk asked health workers who recently got the last of two shots.