A Medicare Part D subsidy program is ending early, raising concerns about premiums and affordable drug coverage for North Carolina seniors.

A survey shows NC high school students' mental health is improving, but experts say more school psychologists and social workers is needed.

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina secured federal recognition as a sovereign nation, but getting health care benefits may prove complicated.

Experts offer practical steps for cleaner indoor air when wildfire smoke lingers, which can be triggered by local or distant fires.

The Katie Blessing Center will provide much-needed psychiatric beds for kids. But campaign donations tied to its backers are drawing scrutiny.

States will have to meet a Jan. 1 deadline to implement new Medicaid work requirements, after a federal judge denied 25 Democratic-led states’ request to pause implementation of the rule.

In some places, locally supported nonprofits are stepping up, but leaders say their work can never fill the hole left by cuts to the federal food stamps program.

Now, Noble and her colleagues, including those from Duke University, are using that same wastewater surveillance system to study what people eat. Researchers employed a technology that the paper’s ...

The lack of rain this summer hit NC farmers hard. Hunger relief organizations that rely on local produce are struggling too.

The agency, which has been key to improving patient safety, has been shut down by the Trump administration through cuts to funding.

New study finds that expanded access to Medicaid was related to a drop in suicide rates among men in only one group: white adults ages 35-49.

The office spent more than three decades using data and community partnerships to address persistent health disparities.