Health & Science

A Kaiser Family Foundation estimate suggests around 54 million people have conditions that — without legal protections — could prompt health insurers to deny them policies.

On average, each U.S. nursing home is connected to seven others through shared staff, a study by Yale and UCLA researchers suggests.

Gov. Phil Murphy announced that the state submitted the first draft of its COVID-19 vaccination plan on Oct. 16.

People who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, shed virus particles through their poop when they go to the bathroom.

With case counts exceeding 1,000 every day for the last 21 days, state health officials say the current fall surge is starting to outpace the initial wave of infections.

State entomologists found the nest in a tree near the Canadian border. They were led there by an Asian giant hornet to which they had attached a radio tracker.

The study suggests that if 95% of Americans wore masks in public it could drastically reduce the amount of COVID-19 deaths by February.

COVID-19 cases are surging across the country and with Thanksgiving right around the corner, is it safe to travel to spend the holiday with friends and family?

Gov. Phil Murphy has once again signed an executive order to extend New Jersey’s public health emergency, citing a steep increase in coronavirus cases in recent days.

Cases of the virus have been rising in the U.S. since mid-September.

The memorial opened as Pennsylvania experiences another surge of the deadly coronavirus.

“Daily increases are now comparable with what we saw in April 2020,” said a press release from the state’s Department of Health.

The employee was a member of the medical staff and that the center was responding by cleaning the building and contact tracing.

Think about the millions of details stored in your memory: what you had for breakfast; how to get to work; the smell of lavender; your fi ...

It had been authorized for use on an emergency basis since spring, and now becomes the first drug to win full Food and Drug Administration approval for treating COVID-19.