By Taylor Knopf For the third year in a row, drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have trended downward. North Carolina had one of the largest year-over-year decreases — a nearly 29 percent drop in overdo...
By Rachel Crumpler For someone leaving a prison or jail, there are countless questions to answer: about health care, housing, work and relationships. Finding the right support is often difficult, espe...
By Jennifer Fernandez Even as one school year is wrapping up, parents of preschoolers should be working on getting their kindergarten students ready for school in the fall. A key recommendation: Sched...
By Sarah Jane Tribble and Amanda Seitz KFF Health News WILLIAMSTON — Two years after her brother’s death, Debra Pierce still wonders whether the 50-year-old would have survived his heart attack if her...
By Skye Crawford Hailey Yentz was lifting weights with her track and field team in February 2025, when she started to feel dizzy. Without knowing why, she collapsed in a teammate’s arms and for 10 min...
By Anne Blythe Mary Otto was a reporter at The Washington Post almost two decades ago when she came across the story of a Maryland boy whose lack of access to routine dental care would expose a broken...
By Will Atwater As 90-degree days begin to show up in the spring, protecting migrant farmworkers from heat stress is a top priority for farmworker advocacy groups heading into what many expect will be...
By Ashley Fredde When first responders responded within minutes to a 911 call from Clayton Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Johnston County, they arrived to find that resuscitation had not yet ...
By Kate Denning Carolina Public Press The University of North Carolina System Board of Governors voted Thursday to let UNC-Wilmington move forward with the planning process for its proposed medical sc...
By Zoya Teirstein Grist This story was produced by Grist and co-published with States Newsroom. It is part of the Grist series Vital Signs, exploring the ways climate change affects your health. This ...