North Carolina state law lacks consequences for the WNC hospital. Mission supervisor acknowledges “ongoing issues.” ...

NC dental board, election, selection, politics, private equity, hedge fund, Shital Patel, anesthesiology, Dental Society ...

Residency programs like one co-administered by the Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority are critical in fixing the doctor and ...

Provisions in the senate budget would repeal NC’s hospital capacity regulation laws, trim vacant state jobs and increase ...

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Medical students’ lack of exposure to the field and lower compensation are barriers to growing the geriatrician workforce.

When North Carolina implemented a year of practice as part of a new graduated driver’s licensing for 16- and 17-year-olds in the 1990s, the state saw an almost immediate plunge in fatal crashes for ...

Julie Crockett’s 8-year-old granddaughter, Sophia McConkey, relies on Medicaid every day. She has a rare genetic disorder called TBCK syndrome that causes low muscle tone, seizures and fragile bones.

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 ...

Naloxone is a widely available medication that can bring someone back from the brink of death in minutes, but cost, stigma and other barriers have kept the opioid overdose antidote out of reach for ...

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 ...