Tests have detected PFAS in private wells and in drinking water sources that are tapped by hundreds of public utilities throughout the state.

The new Trump administration will set the agenda for health policies in the coming year. How will that affect North Carolina?

The goal is to use Black beauty spaces to increase awareness of vaccines that reduce serious illness from respiratory viruses.

The outgoing head of NCDHHS oversaw the implementation of Medicaid expansion while working to bolster behavioral health ...

Health care costs, medical debt, Hurricane Helene, Medicare Advantage, a proposed masking ban and abortion care were some of the top stories.

The respite house opening in Wake County signals North Carolina’s evolving approach to mental health, with the state ...

If we’re not open, none of the businesses are going to get their workers,” says Marcia Whitney, a western N.C. child care center president.

Decades ago, North Carolina legislators sought to change the way mental health care is delivered. They closed psychiatric hospitals arguing that patients would be better treated in the community, in ...

Between federal COVID relief funds and the $1.4 billion sign-on bonus North Carolina received for expanding Medicaid, state lawmakers were able to make significant investments in mental health ...