Rose Hoban | North Carolina Health News

Over the course of several weeks, people with disabilities have come from across North Carolina to press for the General Assembly to fund services for people with physical, emotional and mental health disabilities.

Medical and biomedical researchers across North Carolina are used to pondering some of the most vexing questions in health and biology, but a directive issued last week by Trump left many without answers when it came to the future of their life-saving and life-enhancing research projects.

People with disabilities stage days of protests in North Carolina’s capital to try to raise awareness about inadequate community services and housing options.

Now that Gov. Roy Cooper has checked expanding Medicaid off his gubernatorial to-do list, he has shifted his health care focus to the needs of North Carolina’s most vulnerable — the young, the old and the disabled — in his proposed spending plan for the coming fiscal year.

The North Carolina General Assembly allocated the money last year for behavioral health, now it’s starting to flow into a system with a lot of need.

North Carolina lawmakers get grim news about the potential for child care closures if new funding is not found for federal pandemic-era subsidies.

NC DHHS Secretary Kody Kinsley wants to bring a diverse group to his table to discuss how to spend state funds allocated for health care workforce development.

Rural North Carolina hospitals and health care initiatives to get a huge boost over the next couple of years.

North Carolina has a good Samaritan law to protect people who call to help someone who’s overdosed. But advocates say it’s confusing and dissuades too many from reaching out.

After years of pleading by advocates, lawmakers in North Carolina are giving serious consideration to adding about a half-million low-income workers and their families to the Medicaid program.