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By Will Atwater On a warm July morning, Joe Suleyman — dressed in a neon vest, short sleeves and blue jeans — stood on a grassy hill in New Hanover County. White clouds drifted across a bright blue sk...

By Emily Chambliss In North Carolina, the odds of finding a child psychiatrist  depend too often on your ZIP code. Even in urban counties such as Wake or Mecklenburg, families may wait months for an a...

By Michelle Crouch Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger For years, Charlotte’s health care market has been dominated by two names: Atrium Health and Novant Health. Between them, the two hospital sys...

By Walter S. DeKeseredy The Conversation I have been teaching a course on rural criminology since 2014, and most of my students are surprised by the information on violence against women presented to ...

By Jaymie Baxley Jennifer Shigley can’t speak or walk without assistance. The 49-year-old also cannot feed or bathe herself. Her father, a retired child psychologist, described her as having the menta...

By Jennifer Fernandez Greensboro-based Cone Health is expanding its school-based telehealth program to offer remote mental health services for the first time. Students struggling with anxiety, depress...

By Taylor Knopf A new psychiatric hospital in Greenville will begin serving patients in eastern North Carolina later this month.  ECU Health Behavioral Health Hospital is a new 144-bed facility intend...

By Michelle Crouch The Charlotte Ledger When city of Charlotte workers get sick, they don’t have to wait weeks for a primary care appointment or shell out a co-pay for an urgent care visit. Instead, t...

By Arthur Allen KFF Health News Don’t get Nathan Jones started on xylitol, the active ingredient in his chewing gum, nasal spray, and other products. He’ll talk your ear off about its wondrous powers ...