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New app aims to make it easier for people leaving incarceration to identify resources

New app aims to make it easier for people leaving incarceration to identify resources

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...

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Put state health assessment form on your ‘kindergarten to-do’ list

Put state health assessment form on your ‘kindergarten to-do’ list

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...

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Trump’s $50B rural health bet meets a healthcare desert in North Carolina

Trump’s $50B rural health bet meets a healthcare desert in North Carolina

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...

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Cardiac emergency survivors, advocates encourage ‘Smart Heart Act’ inclusion in state budget

Cardiac emergency survivors, advocates encourage ‘Smart Heart Act’ inclusion in state budget

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...

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Giving more teeth to public health in dentistry

Giving more teeth to public health in dentistry

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...

 Migrant workers, advocates work to get ready for long, hot summer

 Migrant workers, advocates work to get ready for long, hot summer

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...

Delayed, denied, diffused: Families face an uphill battle in nursing home cases

Delayed, denied, diffused: Families face an uphill battle in nursing home cases

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 ...

UNCW gets UNC System blessing to continue medical school planning

UNCW gets UNC System blessing to continue medical school planning

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...

A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?

A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?

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 ...

Lawmakers target hospitals – and Atrium Health in particular – in reform bills

Lawmakers target hospitals – and Atrium Health in particular – in reform bills

By Michelle Crouch Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger Atrium Health would have to add four local elected officials to its board under a North Carolina state Senate bill — one of several proposals ...