Health Care

Members of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Region of the Red Cross are helping displaced residents after widespread flooding caused significant damage in eastern Kentucky.

WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk reached out to experts in the region to learn more about what residents need to know about the quickly evolving health crisis.

Experts caution against fear-based messaging, especially when it targets communities that have historically been discriminated against.

An estimated 4 million workers in the U.S. are struggling to work due to debilitating symptoms from long COVID.

White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor says in a letter that Biden “has experienced no reemergence of symptoms, and continues to feel quite well.”

Philadelphians and LGBTQ advocates have grown frustrated with the limited availability of vaccines and small scope of testing in the city.

Officials are planning to speed up availability of the next generation of boosters in the fall.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz told a crowd in Tampa that "nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb," launching him into an online battle with a teenage activist.

An Indiana doctor says she has faced harassment after the story of one of her patients — a 10-year-old Ohio girl who became pregnant as a result of rape — captured the nation.

A dump of tens of thousands of colossal digital files from a single insurer is not unusual, and it'll be weeks before data firms can put the information in a usable format.

Appointments for the monkeypox vaccine are offered only to existing patients by appointment only. Walk-ins will not be accepted.

A handful of women dressed in rags scrubbed the ground of the City Hall courtyard to amplify the work to access abortion rights in the U.S.

Some school systems around the country have moved to bolster staffing to minimize disruptions. But many are hoping for the best without doing much else differently.

While white men are disproportionately affected by HPV-related throat cancer, Black and Hispanic men are dying from the disease at higher rates.

The chief of the World Health Organization says the expanding monkeypox outbreak is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency.