The availability of safe, effective COVID vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the 300-year history of vaccination, seemingly heralding an age of protection against ...

Research shows injury from extreme heat more likely, as advocates push for a new federal heat rule and employers push back.

National advocacy group accuses NC hospitals of noncompliance with price transparency rules and feds of poor enforcement. Hospitals disagree.

A federal lawsuit alleges that teenagers are put in solitary confinement, despite its demonstrated harm. State officials deny ...

A yearlong study finds an alarming trend about the distribution of microplastics in a remote section of a mountain watershed.

Organizations anticipate people having more health care needs as they wend their way through the storm recovery process.

Giving growers and farmworkers the skills to provide CPR to someone experiencing a cardiac event in the fields or housing ...

Some companies that offer Medicare Advantage plans are face push-back for forcing patients to jump through hoops for care.

As he prepares to leave office, Gov. Roy Cooper reflects on the "uphill battle" for Medicaid expansion, his signature policy achievement.

Whooping cough, which is rising nationally too, tends to peak during the fall and winter, so cases are expected to keep rising.

Dozens of rural water systems were knocked out by the remnant of Hurricane Helene. Full recovery may take years.