Health & Science

Here's everything you need to know about the different coronavirus tests and what they can — and can't — tell you.

The answer to this question rests on the way the virus is transmitted — a topic that is still being researched.

Public health officials and hospitals had feared disaster in the spring. But the number of people needing inpatient treatment has steadily declined.

Between face shields, neck gaiters and goggles, the options for protection are getting more complex.

In May and June, the Pennsylvania Health Department did inspections, mostly following up on complaints about COVID-19. The data has just been released.

Gov. Murphy confirms N.J. will use largely the same plan from the primary for the general election. This time all registered voters will get a mail-in ballot.

The vast majority of states are gathering data from their contact tracing programs, but only 13 respondents reported that the data was posted on a government website.

When the pandemic began, many hospitals strictly restricted visitors. At some, faith leaders have been limited to phone calls and video chats ever since.

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Open to new experiences, or comforted by routine? Shy or the life of the party? Figuring out what m ...

A race-car accident shook her frontal lobes and cerebellum like a baby rattle, doctors said. Personality change after a trauma like that isn’t uncommon. 

Psychologists have a name for that sense of being different when we’re with different groups of friends: our social selves.

It says the impact of the pandemic and how the disease has followed the contours of the larger society in falling especially hard on Blacks, Latinos and Indigenous people.

“This is America. Be a patriot. Protect your fellow citizens. Step up, do the right thing.”

Of the positive cases interviewed by contact-tracers, more than 40% believed they knew the person who they got the infection from, usually a household member.

When treatment facilities ignore coronavirus protocols, patients are forced to choose between recovery and safety.