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Prescription for crisis: Rural pharmacies struggle to stay open
September 06, 2024
Pharmacy closures can be devastating for rural communities where residents skew older and are more likely to live with obesity, high blood pressure and other conditions than their urban counterparts. They also face greater transportation challenges and higher rates of poverty.
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State agricultural, veterinary officials stay on the lookout for bird flu in NC cattle
September 04, 2024
Ag commissioner Steve Troxler gave North Carolina farmers a chance to hear from agricultural and veterinary officials about the national outbreak and what that means for them.
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Rural NC county pursues experimental plan to revive shuttered hospital
August 12, 2024
Martin County could become the first community in the nation to bring a closed facility back to life using a new federal program.
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These paramedics are for more than just emergencies in North Carolina communities
July 19, 2024
As fentanyl-related overdoses increase across the state, community paramedics are administering medications to help people recover after opioid overdoses. McDowell County touted itself as one of the earlier programs in the country and among the first in rural North Carolina after launching in 2013.
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One year into new abortion limits, N.C. patients and providers struggle to shoulder the load restrictions bring
July 01, 2024
The new requirements mean that patients must visit clinics at least twice — and many need to travel long distances to reach one of the state’s 14 abortion clinics spread over nine counties.
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North Carolina to expand peer-led crisis services in push for more mental health support
April 29, 2024
The state is investing in a wider range of mental health crisis supports, including those run by people with lived experience of mental illness.
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Wilson County deploys overdose reversal kits to combat epidemic of opioid deaths
April 18, 2024
County uses big pharma settlement funds to create a ‘community of first responders,’ hopes to be a model for saving lives.
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Child care providers face difficult choices as funding cliff looms
April 05, 2024
A survey of child care centers released last week shows that without extra pandemic aid, centers expect to lose teachers, close classrooms, raise tuition and fees or a combination of those measures. More than 1,500 child care facilities in North Carolina could close.
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Medical students help rural schoolchildren avoid suspension with mobile physicals
March 11, 2024
Students from East Carolina University provide state-mandated health assessments to kids in southeastern North Carolina counties.
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Crooning for a Cure: The star-studded song that changed NC’s health care landscape
January 09, 2024
Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore and Kay Kyser teamed up 77 years ago to rally support for the state’s Good Health Plan. It included addressing the shortage of physicians that was so severe in 1945, a quarter of babies born in rural counties were delivered without a doctor present.
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Second chances for formerly incarcerated women grow on this farm in Alamance County
December 18, 2023
Benevolence Farm offers housing, employment and other support to women leaving incarceration as they begin again.
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NC pushes back Medicaid unwinding for kids
December 13, 2023
The state also is pursuing waivers to protect children further by keeping them enrolled longer before eligibility reviews, reducing the times children may temporarily lose coverage.
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From creeks to clouds: The invisible invasion of microplastics
December 04, 2023
Plastic pollution may be harming humans and marine life, and could be changing the weather.
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Public payment of dialysis treatment has changed the rural health care marketplace
November 22, 2023
One of the chronically medically underserved populations in rural America, African American residents, on average live closer to dialysis facilities than white residents do.
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New youth psychiatric hospital will have specialized units for substance use, disabilities
November 09, 2023
As emergency rooms fill with children in need of mental health support, UNC Health and the state Department of Health and Human Services open a facility in the town of Butner that aims to serve kids with specialized inpatient mental health treatment.
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