North Carolina's lack of child psychiatrists, especially in rural areas, leaves pediatricians to face conditions beyond their specialty. Here's how the NC Psychiatry Access Line (NC-PAL) helps.
Through a model called direct primary care, more NC employers—like the city of Charlotte—are bypassing insurance and paying doctors directly, “like a gym membership for health care.”
NC, LGBTQ+ organizations adjust after the Trump administration eliminated the 988 hotline option for specialized mental health services.
Despite North Carolina's brutally hot summers, about 21% of NC prisons are without air-conditioning.
Following a national trend, state lawmakers are looking to remove artificial dyes in favor of natural food coloring. Here's what that means for Cheerwine.
A push by Congressional Republicans to slash federal funding for Medicaid could have “dire consequences” for the more than 1.2 million rural North Carolinians who depend on the program.
Planned Parenthood’s Asheville clinic, the only abortion provider in western NC, is temporarily closed because of damage from Hurricane Helene.
Bloodsucking leeches, coffin-shaped tablets and a mechanical “lung” are among the more than 5,000 items on display at The Country Doctor Museum in Nash County.
