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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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. -
Immigrant advocates say community health workers will be instrumental in disseminating accurate information about North Carolina House Bill 10, NC Health News reports.
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The former surgeon general in the Trump administration criticizes a North Carolina bill that would do away with a pandemic-era law that allowed face masks for public health reasons. -
State officials are putting the final touches on a plan to provide more and better home-based and community care for residents with traumatic brain injuries and intellectual and developmental disabilities. -
Calling problem gambling a public health issue, many in North Carolina are getting ready for an onslaught of helpline calls and increased need for addiction treatment. -
Farmworker José Arturo Gónzalez Mendoza died Sept. 5 after harvesting sweet potatoes in a Barnes Farming field in Nash County. Migrant workers and advocates are now calling for measures to protect workers from extreme heat. -
Despite the well-documented problems and lawmakers’ promises to bring relief, North Carolina has been slow to get air conditioning throughout a prison system that houses more than 31,000 inmates.
