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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...

By Taylor Knopf When a patient expresses a mental health concern to their primary care provider, that typically generates a referral to a behavioral health specialist. Then that specialist contacts th...

By Will Atwater North Carolina’s struggle with PFAS contamination underscores the unintended consequences that can follow widespread chemical use — even as Congress is considering overhauling the nati...

By Jessie Butner Roxboro Courtier-Times Uptown Roxboro sat quietly under Friday’s abysmal gray and cloudy chill all afternoon – with the exception of 117 N. Main Street. Inside, a crowd of people, con...

By Jaymie Baxley  When people qualify for Medicaid after a medical emergency, the program can currently reach back up to three months to pay for care they received before they applied — a safeguard th...