By Rachel Crumpler A clear container of pink, blue and white beads sits on display at the nurses’ station of a five-bed rural maternity care unit in Siler City, the Chatham County seat. A label reads:...
By Will Atwater Ron Ross, 70, has spent decades in Charlotte’s Historic West End watching traffic thicken on nearby I‑77 and working alongside his neighbors to fight for cleaner air and a healthier fu...
By Ashley Fredde Teepa Snow had been properly warned that “Ms. Jackson is on a tear” by the on-duty nurse when she strode into the room. She recalls huffing in exasperation and thinking in response ...
By Jennifer Fernandez RALEIGH — A statewide group that has focused on improving the health of mothers and babies since 2009 has been winding down its work since it lost state funding last October. Wor...
By Taylor Knopf As North Carolina lawmakers grapple with how to keep people with serious mental illness out of jails and hospitals, one intervention that has piqued their interest is forcing people in...
By Andrew Jones KFF Health News ASHEVILLE — At around 2 a.m., 7-year-old twin brothers arrived at Mission Hospital in Asheville. Both had a fever, a cough, a rash, pink eye, and cold symptoms. The boy...
By Jaymie Baxley After three years at the helm, Jay Ludlam is stepping down as director of North Carolina’s Medicaid program. Ludlam’s tenure included North Carolina’s expansion of Medicaid, a decade-...
By Taylor Knopf Since November, North Carolina lawmakers have been grappling with the problems plaguing the state’s intertwined mental health and criminal justice systems during hours-long monthly mee...
By Katie Myers and Laura Hackett Grist Regina is haunted by the specter of mold. She found the insidious spores in the closet, behind the refrigerator, and around the bathtub for two years after the ...
By Rachel Crumpler Teenagers in some North Carolina juvenile detention centers are spending nearly the entire day locked in their cells — sometimes allowed out for only one or two hours — according to...