More than 500,000 North Carolina residents have enrolled in the state’s Medicaid expansion program since its launch about seven months ago, officials announced recently.
Following another weekend marked by shootings that left dozens of people dead or wounded, the U.S. Surgeon General declared gun violence a public health crisis.
Outside of Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ in the South Slope of Asheville, North Carolina, you will find a bus. This is the Hope Bus.
States with highly restrictive abortion bans have seen a significant drop in prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraception, according to a new national study.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed new federal regulations this month that would prohibit including current and future medical debt on credit reports.
The laws for obtaining mifepristone, medication to terminate a pregnancy, in North Carolina are changing.
A proposal that aimed to restrict public access to autopsy records has been removed from the bill where it was originally included. However, it might reappear in the future, according to one of its sponsors.
Last week, advocates across the country participated in Period Poverty Awareness Week, a national call to action to view menstrual supplies not just as health necessities but as fundamental educational tools.
On the anniversary of the Republican-led state legislature voting to increase restrictions on abortion in North Carolina, groups opposed to the ban held a press conference to underscore the measure’s impact.
Last year the Department of Health and Human services recommended a reclassification of Marijuana to the Drug Enforcement Administration at the request of President Biden.