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By Anne Blythe When Lee Zeldin, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced almost 10 months ago that the federal regulator would reevaluate research on potential health risks of fluor...

By Michelle Crouch The Charlotte Ledger Kimberly Sanders thought she was doing the right thing when she stepped into a mobile mammogram van parked outside her Charlotte workplace, a primary care clini...

By Will Atwater Last week, the second administration of President Donald Trump fulfilled a long-held goal of the fossil fuel industry: scaling back federal climate regulations that restrict oil, gas a...

By Ashley Fredde Sunlight pours through stained glass windows onto rows of wooden pews that, on occasion, still hold hymnals. But Milner Memorial Presbyterian Church, where those same windows once ill...

By Sarah Carr Hechinger Report Every December brings an end-of-year crush to Washington, D.C.’s pediatric clinics. In addition to the usual culprits — colds, the flu, RSV — that’s also the time when t...

By Rose Hoban About 15 years ago, Myron Cohen helped change the course of a pandemic. Cohen, who’s has been an infectious disease researcher and administrator at UNC Chapel Hill for more than four dec...

By Rachel Crumpler and Taylor Knopf North Carolina’s three state-run psychiatric hospitals — Cherry, Central Regional and Broughton — serve about 570 patients each day. But hundreds more who need inpa...

By Andrew Jones KFF Health News CELO COMMUNITY, N.C. — On a 15-degree morning in January, a clinic in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina began to fill up with patients. An older couple in fla...