Health Care

Officials blame hospital logistics for the slow rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine process in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

A wave of departing medical professionals in rural areas threatens to leave gaping holes in these health care systems and local economies, and trigger a death spiral.

Some in the medical community are questioning whether the tools they use to assess patient health may be contributing to racial health disparities.

"I stand by my words," says Dr. James Phillips, who said the president's decision to drive by supporters while being treated for COVID-19 endangered his security detail.

What’s it like to get the COVID-19 vaccine? Some of the first people to receive it described how it felt to WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk.

Nurses in overtaxed hospitals are afraid that people aren't taking precautions as coronavirus cases surge, and they especially fear what's next.

Congress has passed a long-debated measure to stop health care providers from billing patients for charges not covered by their insurance. Here's how the new protection works.

Patients will self-administer the tests, then hand them to workers through a plastic barrier.

WHYY’s readers and listeners shared their concerns. Our Health Desk Help Desk addresses them here.

At a weekly COVID-19 press briefing, Gov. Phil Murphy announced six forthcoming vaccine “mega-sites.”

In remarks after his shot, Pence called the speed with which the vaccine was developed "a medical miracle.”

As a budding school teacher was having a stroke at age 22, medical professionals kept explaining her symptoms away and sending her home. Until her mom stepped in.

The FDA is expected to follow the recommendation for the vaccine from Moderna and the National Institutes of Health.

Readers and listeners reached out with questions about the COVID-19 vaccine. Our Health Desk Help Desk offers up the answers.

Delaware has begun giving out shots from its first batch of about 9,000 vaccine doses. The general public will likely have to wait until March.