By Liz Carey The Daily Yonder Across the country, states are grappling with how to allocate their portion of funds from the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) created in 2025. But whether tho...
By Jennifer Allen Coastal Review Funding has been cut for a state-run environmental education program and the two-member team that manages the 30-plus year outreach effort, a move widely criticized by...
This is the third in a series of posts covering the Healthy Aging Checklist. Again, the Healthy Aging Checklist summarizes the six fundamental activities I recommend when asked what to do to maintain ...
By Taylor Knopf For families of people with severe mental health needs, a frustrating pattern emerges. Mobile crisis teams come to the home repeatedly. Trips to the emergency room add up. Involuntary ...
By Rachel Crumpler As last year’s state budget stalemate stretched into January of this year, N.C. Department of Adult Correction Secretary Leslie Cooley Dismukes laid out the crises facing her depart...
Key takeaways: Toward Zero Waste’s SHARE program teaches students to reduce food waste and help feed hungry classmates. The program has grown from eight pilot schools in spring 2025 to 37 schools, and...
NC Health News won 10 awards — including three first-place awards — in the annual North Carolina Press Association contest for 2026. Staff also won two second-place and five third-place awards. The p...
By Rose Hoban Key Takeaways: North Carolina has reported at least 307 Cyclospora cases as of the most recent update, the CDC listing 5,100 suspected cases nationwide as of July 20. Officials belie...
This is the second in a series of posts explaining my Healthy Aging Checklist. Remember, for the healthiest aging, we need to do the things that optimize health — and health care — so that the brain a...
One of the greatest challenges, when it comes to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, is coping with sundowning and with difficult behaviors. These are symptoms beyond the chronic memory/thinking...