Health Care

Gun violence activist and survivor Oronde McClain was paired with WHYY host Cherri Gregg to produce a video and written work to show the true impact of gun violence.

Starting Saturday, dialing 988 will connect callers experiencing distress across the country to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

The Centers for Disease Control still must recommend how to use the Novavax vaccine before shots begin. The U.S. has bought 3.2 million doses.

Even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, whether a health plan paid for abortion varied widely. Now it's become even more complex, with conflicts on the horizon.

The warning comes as two new highly transmissible variants are spreading rapidly across the country.

The Philadelphia Flyers have placed forward Oskar Lindblom on waivers on for the purpose of buying out the final year of the cancer survivor’s contract.

Anthony Esposito has stepped into the role of chief executive officer of the four-hospital system in Delaware County.

They said that federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions.

New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General Matt Platkin announces a team from across his office that will enforce protections for those seeking reproductive health care.

The BA.5 variant is now the most dominant strain of COVID-19 in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

These devices measure blood oxygen levels. But research shows they can deliver misleading results for people with darker skin.

Everything you need to know about Monkeypox right now. Also, the struggles facing NJ produce farmers, and we talk about a Library Company mental health exhibition.

Pa. Republicans are pushing an amendment that would keep courts from intervening in attempts to restrict abortion. It just cleared its first big hurdle.

Many advocates suggest women and all those who can get pregnant have emergency contraception on hand before they need it.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to protect access to abortion as he faced mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful on the subject.