NC autopsies stay public record, advocates still wary
By Grace Vitaglione State lawmakers dropped language from a bill that would have shielded autopsies from public review, but the Senate’s thumbs-up on the revised…
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Legal challenges keep NC abortion law in flux
By Rachel Crumpler More than a year after state lawmakers passed Senate Bill 20, adding new abortion restrictions in a late-night vote overriding Gov. Roy…
“Road map” for more care for people with disabilities
By Vibhav Nandagiri Advocates for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have a long list of needs that they would like state lawmakers to address….
Docs, community health workers worry about health effects of immigration bill
By Vibhav Nandagiri Griselda Alonso remembers the home visit well. It was around 2008, a few years after she had started as a community health…
Parents lobby to raise awareness of stillbirth in NC
By Emily Vespa Brittany Day will never forget when she saw the lifeless bodies of her twin daughters, Sophie and Ruby, on a hospital ultrasound…
NC making workforce plan for Medicaid enrollees
By Jaymie Baxley Medicaid expansion has already provided more than 450,000 low-income North Carolinians with health insurance. Could it also help them find better-paying jobs?…
Doctors rail against proposed ban against public masking
By Anne Blythe Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease specialist at Duke University with a knack for making medicine and science easily understood, is just as…
Former psych hospital staff allege they were told to falsify records
This article was co-published with WRAL-TV. By Taylor Knopf Days after her 21st birthday in March 2023, Mo Hatcher found herself short of breath and…
Former employees say NC psych hospital rife with violence, abuse
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article mentions self-harm, suicide, sexual assault, violence and psychiatric hospitalization. If you need mental health support, call or text 988 or consult…
NC expanding peer mental health support
By Taylor Knopf North Carolinians in need of mental health support now have more places to call — and soon will have more places to…