Health & Science

U.S. government officials say an experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major study.

Gov. John Carney’s latest executive order took effect Tuesday morning. His public health director says it should last “for quite some time.”

About 70 percent of new cases reported Wednesday by the Delaware Division of Public Health were in Sussex County, the state’s coronavirus hot spot.

The reopenings take effect Saturday. Freelancers and gig workers to start receiving unemployment payments.

More Americans have now died from coronavirus in less than two months than in the entire nine years of the Vietnam war — more than 58,000.

Construction was accelerated to make 120 new beds available for a possible COVID surge.

Gov. Tom Wolf is under pressure to get people back to work, while trying to bring the pandemic under control. And the issue has gotten political.

Antibodies that fought off coronavirus once might do so again. The treatment has been used for a century-plus, including in 1918’s influenza pandemic.

The hotbed for COVID-19 has shifted to Delaware’s southernmost county, home to its treasured beaches and agricultural industry.

Camden is expanding its COVID-19 testing capabilities and pairing it with services that address what makes some of its residents so vulnerable to the virus.

Normally, it’s the unofficial start of summer, but at least one Jersey Shore town says it can’t safely reopen in time for Memorial Day weekend.

As doctors treat more and more COVID-19 patients, they are realizing the new coronavirus can affect far more than just a patient's lungs.

Sisters Tammy King and Michelle Rouco worked as nurses at the same hospital where their father died of COVID-19. They still couldn’t be by his side.

Amid a health crisis that’s disproportionately ravaging African-American communities, the Black church is busy, even if its pews are empty.

Chills, muscle pain, sore throat and lost sense of smell are now official signs of COVID-19.