Anne Blythe | North Carolina Health News
Anne Blythe, a reporter in North Carolina for more than three decades, writes about oral health care, children's health and other topics for North Carolina Health News.
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A bipartisan trio of state senators are sponsoring a bill to help more children and adults on Medicaid get oral health care. -
With NC lawmakers set to begin a new session April 21, a cannabis council hopes to make legalizing marijuana use for adults under tight regulation part of the discussion. -
Sports betting marketers are wooing females, pitching their gambling as inclusive, empowering and a way to connect with friends. -
As health care costs rise, free-market advocates contend that CON laws stifle competition that could lead to lower prices. Hospital organizations disagree. -
The head of the NC Pharmacy Board explains what it takes after all the federal guideline shifts to get a vaccine from your pharmacist. -
Amid the celebration of the landmark legislation, public health officials looked backward and forward. -
As fluoride skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. starts his first full week as Health and Human Services Secretary, debate over community water fluoridation simmers. -
As immigration directives change under the Trump administration, health care providers worry that immigrants may avoid seeking necessary care. -
North Carolina dentists tout the benefits of fluoridated water systems, even as some counties are looking to remove it from their water systems.
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A North Carolina Supreme Court decision has the potential to upend the state’s certificate of need regulations, which govern how health care facilities and services get allocated.
