Auditors: Lack of timely inspections, follow-ups to complaints meant bad actors were able to get away with violating regulations.

RFK Jr., fluoridation, drinking water, Lincoln County, ban, community water system, Juneau, Union County, oral health, ...

The study showed that medicine used to help asthma patients for more than 20 years could lessen or prevent acute allergic ...

Addiction Professionals of North Carolina launched a public awareness campaign about patient brokers, who refer patients to ...

Funding reductions proposed by Congress threaten hospitals, children’s health and local economies in rural communities.

North Carolina’s men seem to be doing better than the state’s women in getting exercise and improving their life expectancies over time. And while all of North Carolina’s counties saw increases in ...

A new course, first offered last semester, trains undergraduate college students to serve as hospital sitters who help keep patients safe.

As Christmas nears, many children will be anticipating a visit from Santa. But despite drops in North Carolina’s unemployment rate and a slowly recovering economy, many of North Carolina’s children ...

One August afternoon in 2023, Angela Martin’s cousin called with alarming news. Martin’s 74-year-old aunt had been mauled by four dogs while out for a walk near her home in rural Purlear, North ...