Health Care

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.

There are now more COVID-19 hospitalizations in the county than there were in the spring, said Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, chair of the Montco Board of Commissioners.

A federal judge ruled the Federal Trade Commission cannot stop a merger between Einstein Healthcare Network and Jefferson Health, both with hospitals in the Philly region.

Doctors hope the one-time treatment, which involves permanently altering DNA in blood cells with a tool called CRISPR, may treat and possibly cure sickle cell disease.

By targeting providers with attacks that scramble and lock up data until victims pay a ransom, hackers can demand lots of money and wreak havoc until they’re paid.

At least a third of the hospitals in the southwest and south-central part of the state expect shortages in the next week. Some rural facilities are already in crisis.