Health Care

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.

The CNN host discusses how COVID-19 is rapidly changing the world and why the time is right to enact lasting reforms in politics, health care, the environment and the economy.

New Jersey, like the rest of the country, has seen a resurgence of the virus, with daily caseloads climbing above their highest points in the spring.

Updated weekly, these charts monitor the coronavirus burden on health institutions around the city.

They’ve set up ultra-cold storage, prioritized who goes first, and created inoculation rotations so frontline workers can get shots when the doses arrive.

Nurses, hospital directors and public health officials worry that the growing number of patients could overwhelm the system and caregivers.

With the first COVID-19 vaccines expected to be shipped out within days, health care providers are scrambling to prepare for an unprecedentedly high-stakes vaccine rollout.