Lawsuits reveal allegations of preventable injuries and deaths inside nursing homes. Families pursuing legal action face barriers.

Warming ocean waters are priming beaches and raw shellfish for Vibrio. Scientists are trying to stay one step ahead.

A Senate bill would require agencies to accept recent adult care home inspections instead of conducting new ones, prompting debate over resident safety.

UNC infectious disease expert David Wohl says the Ebola outbreak in the DRC highlights growing gaps in global disease surveillance, response coordination and public health preparedness.

Legislation aims to increase oversight of hospital mergers, cap hospital CEO pay and add more accountability for hospital authorities like Atrium Health.

The number of kinship caregivers increased nearly 16 percent from 2023 to 2025, after the state began paying unlicensed ...

Attorney General Jeff Jackson elects to join 24 other states plus the District of Columbia, arguing that a new rule limiting the amount students can borrow is illegal.

Former Healthy Opportunities Pilot leaders launch new rural health efforts while pushing lawmakers to restore direct service funding.

State leaders are expanding reentry programs aimed at closing gaps in behavioral health care and lowering recidivism for people released from prison.

Erectile dysfunction drug found in Third Fork Creek study. "I don't think the squirrels are taking Cialis and Viagra,” one ...

It received conditional approval – now contested – to increase patient capacity by 13 percent; staff is projected to grow 3.7 percent.