He’ll make America sick again,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of public health law at Georgetown University on RFK's vaccination stance.

Research shows injury from extreme heat more likely, as advocates push for a new federal heat rule and employers push back.

A federal lawsuit alleges that teenagers are put in solitary confinement, despite its demonstrated harm. State officials deny ...

National advocacy group accuses NC hospitals of noncompliance with price transparency rules and feds of poor enforcement. Hospitals disagree.

As he prepares to leave office, Gov. Roy Cooper reflects on the "uphill battle" for Medicaid expansion, his signature policy ...

Organizations anticipate people having more health care needs as they wend their way through the storm recovery process.

A yearlong study finds an alarming trend about the distribution of microplastics in a remote section of a mountain watershed.

Giving growers and farmworkers the skills to provide CPR to someone experiencing a cardiac event in the fields or housing ...

Some companies that offer Medicare Advantage plans are face push-back for forcing patients to jump through hoops for care.

As Christmas nears, many children will be anticipating a visit from Santa. But despite drops in North Carolina’s unemployment rate and a slowly recovering economy, many of North Carolina’s children ...

Whooping cough, which is rising nationally too, tends to peak during the fall and winter, so cases are expected to keep rising.

In an initiative that appears to be the first of its kind nationwide, N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper and state health officials unveiled a plan today to boost federal payouts to hospitals that take specific ...