By Rose Hoban Finley Thomas is an 11-year-old girl who’s got a morning makeup and skin care routine. She loves Halloween, dressing up, her older brothers and cheering with her squad. She also uses a ...
By Ted Clifford AVL Watchdog Mission Hospital has no plans to add staff in key areas – including trauma care, security, and nursing administration – as part of its recently approved, now-contested, 95...
Have you been told that you — or someone important to you — has heart failure? This wouldn’t surprise me, as this is one of the most common heart conditions affecting older adults. People are sometime...
By Will Atwater North Carolina watersheds like Durham’s Third Fork Creek are increasingly under stress from industrial discharges, plastic litter, sewage spills and sediment‑laden runoff caused by dev...
Have you been told that you — or someone important to you — has heart failure? This wouldn’t surprise me, as this is one of the most common heart conditions affecting older adults. People are sometime...
By Jennifer Fernandez The first thing Genevieve Traversy does when she takes in a new foster child is show them where the food is. “Most children that come into foster care are food insecure. I know I...
By Jaymie Baxley When Christina Schnabel’s son began having gastrointestinal problems a few years ago, his doctor didn’t prescribe medication. Instead, he prescribed a food box. Schnabel, a single mo...
Once upon a time, the ER missed a pelvic fracture in one of my older patients. Actually, this kind of thing has happened more than once, and perhaps it’s happened to your family too. As much as we’d l...
By Will Atwater Getting re‑established is often an uphill struggle for people who are coming home from prison or were involved in the criminal justice system. That was the experience of Candace Bever...
By Taylor Knopf When a child is struggling with a behavioral health crisis, family members often call 911 or take the child to a hospital emergency room for help. But medical providers say that a busy...