Health & Science

Hydroxychloroquine is in high demand because of its yet-unproven potential to fight COVID-19. But that means the people who really need it are having trouble getting it.

A lieutenant with the Philadelphia Police Department died over the weekend from the coronavirus. According to the city, he is the first city employee to die from COVID-19.

Who’s running the show on health, schools, operations and transit.

With the pandemic, more are interested in home births, some ask for induced labor, and some are coming from New York to see about having babies here.

"This portal will help facilitate the connections businesses need to get critical COVID-19-related products to market or retrofit their operations."

New Jersey has now been granted half of the 2,500 ventilators Gov. Phil Murphy has asked of the federal government.

A few years ago, Karen Clay and two other scientists studied the death rates for the 1918 flu pandemic in the U.S.

Stay-at-home rules raise lots of new questions: How to manage all those delivery bags? Dispose of sanitizing spray and paper goods, or reuse them?

Another 4,331 New Jersey residents tested positive for coronavirus since Friday, and an additional 200 residents have died, the governor said.

When an EMT fell ill with the coronavirus in Upper Merion Township, the department saw its ranks suddenly dwindle. In all, 22 emergency personnel, including the fire chief.

City and state officials are weighing the risks of keeping parks open as they work to enforce social distancing rules triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.

Some Americans, fearing food shortages from COVID-19, have cleaned out supermarket shelves. Yet there's too much food in some places.

Simply talking could produce tiny particles of mucus and saliva that might carry the coronavirus, experts say.

Three separate sub-studies will launch next with the drug, widely used by people with autoimmune conditions like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

The new guidance is raising concern that it could lead to a sudden run on masks.