Are you on medication to lower blood pressure? Or are you caring for an older person with hypertension, also known as high blood pressure? If so, you are probably wondering just what is the right blo...
By Jennifer Fernandez When families are in crisis, foster parents often fill in to provide a safe place for children while parents get their lives together. Traditionally, foster parents were voluntee...
Are you on medication to lower blood pressure? Or are you caring for an older person with hypertension, also known as high blood pressure? If so, you are probably wondering just what is the right blo...
By Will Atwater As extreme heat becomes more common, people on government-paid health plans are more likely than people with private insurance to land in the emergency department with heat‑related ill...
By Taylor Knopf For the third year in a row, drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have trended downward. North Carolina had one of the largest year-over-year decreases — a nearly 29 percent drop in overdo...
Have you noticed worrisome changes in your aging parent? Maybe they’ve been mostly okay but now you’re seeing problems with memory, such as forgetfulness or asking the same questions repeatedly. Or ma...
By Rachel Crumpler For someone leaving a prison or jail, there are countless questions to answer: about health care, housing, work and relationships. Finding the right support is often difficult, espe...
By Jennifer Fernandez Even as one school year is wrapping up, parents of preschoolers should be working on getting their kindergarten students ready for school in the fall. A key recommendation: Sched...
By Sarah Jane Tribble and Amanda Seitz KFF Health News WILLIAMSTON — Two years after her brother’s death, Debra Pierce still wonders whether the 50-year-old would have survived his heart attack if her...
Sleep. Everybody needs it. Many of us don’t get enough of it. These are common truths that almost everyone knows. But a few years ago, I had the opportunity to learn quite a bit more about sleep, and ...