Archive for category: Covid 19

By Rachel Crumpler A life lost in Buncombe County in 2022 still weighs on — and motivates — Shuchin Shukla, a family physician who specializes in addiction medicine.  A community paramedic had respond...

By Anne Blythe For many, Halloween is a fun-filled night with clever costumes, giant skeletons standing sentinel over plastic boneyards littered with rubbery, bloodied extremities and glowing jack-o-l...

By Will Atwater As the holiday season approaches, conversations about family gatherings and meals are ramping up. For many hosts, planning a festive spread involves more than choosing recipes — it mea...

By Lisa Sorg Inside Climate News Forever War, Part 1: This story is published in partnership with The Assembly and with WHQR, a nonprofit radio station and NPR affiliate in Wilmington. It is the first...

By Bryce Covert The 74 Million April Perez was 22 years old when she had her first daughter. Enrolling in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, commonly known as...

By Jennifer Fernandez At first, meditation and deep breathing were things Diya Patel used to help herself when she felt anxious or stressed. Then she saw a close friend struggle with a mental health c...

By Rachel Crumpler When an overdose is reported in coastal Carteret County, 911 dispatchers send emergency responders racing to the scene carrying naloxone — the opioid reversal medication that can br...

By Jaymie Baxley, Ashley Fredde and Rose Hoban Jon D’Angelo, chair of the North Carolina Council on Disabilities, knows the consequences of cuts to Medicaid reimbursement rates. He lives with spinal m...

By Michelle Crouch Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger City and county leaders in Charlotte said they are pressing for answers after a Charlotte Ledger/NC Health News article last week highlighted ...

By Will Atwater Endometriosis affects one in 10 girls/teens and women of childbearing age, according to the World Health Organization.  Endometriosis is a painful condition where tissue similar to the...