Health & Wellness

The CDC’s recent change to its recommendations is intended to help limit the spread of the Delta variant, a highly transmissible variant of SARS-CoV-2.

Five Jersey hospitals are pilot hospitals for a program to foster better, safer practices.

Still sneezing and wheezing? Does that seem more common all the time? It is.

A Mayo Clinic report finds that incorporating wellness programs for employees can reduce stress. In New Jersey, more companies are offering these programs as part of their benefits packages.

If you had chicken pox, the virus is still lurking in your body, and it could wind up making you very sick.

Far too often, urgent care is seen as a replacement for an ER — and that can be a costly or even dangerous mistake, according to a doctor in Freehold.

"Pet tech" entrepreneurs and investors see a big opportunity as pet ownership grows and owners show a willingness to spend serious money on their four-legged companions.

Pennsylvania is leading the nation with three deaths, the most in that state since 2008. If the numbers hold it would be the first time since 2009 that West Virginia did not record the nation's most coal mine fatalities.

Drug-resistant tuberculosis is a global health threat, and it's particularly challenging for young children who are harder even to diagnose, much less treat.

The government's insurance website is faster and easier to use, but as a third sign-up season gets underway, President Barack Obama's health care law is approaching limits. Enrollment on the federal and state exchanges began Sunday. While the law's expanded coverage has reduced the uninsured rate to a historic low of about 9 percent, the gains will be harder in 2016.