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.

As Christmas nears, many children will be anticipating a visit from Santa. But despite drops in North Carolina’s unemployment rate and a slowly recovering economy, many of North Carolina’s children ...

For the past two weeks, North Carolina lawmakers have been debating bills that would change the state’s regulation of abortion clinics, curtail health plan coverage of the procedure and ban ...

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.

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.

North Carolina’s men seem to be doing better than the state’s women in getting exercise and improving their life expectancies over time. And while all of North Carolina’s counties saw increases in ...

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