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By Jennifer Fernandez Since its opening in September 2020, 850 children have been born at UNC Health Chatham’s Maternity Care Center. The center’s staff is made up mostly of family physicians instead ...

By Michelle Crouch Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger When a Charlotte man fell off a ladder last week and likely fractured his foot, his doctor told him he needed to go to the hospital for an X-r...

By Rachel Crumpler Chris Hatton oversees a 15-officer police force in a small western North Carolina town in Jackson County — a place where he says many calls to 911 aren’t really police matters at al...

By Taylor Knopf North Carolina lawmakers are now taking a closer look at how people with mental health issues can be involuntarily committed for treatment in the wake of a new law they passed — in Sep...

By Anne Blythe A New Bern eye surgeon who is challenging North Carolina’s laws that cap the kinds of medical services, facilities and equipment that can be offered in geographic regions of the state w...

By Sally Kestin Asheville Watchdog Mission Health’s corporate owner, HCA Healthcare, has seen its revenues increase by $3.8 billion in the first three quarters of 2025, the company reported. The 7.2 p...

By Dan DeWitt Asheville Watchdog Virginia Gilbert was shocked and angry after she learned last week that premiums for her Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance policy will more than double next year, ju...

By Jaymie Baxley The parents of more than 20 children with autism notched a recent victory in a lawsuit that accused the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services of discrimination after it slashed...