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Children's Health

Gov. Stein announces new task force on child care and early education

by Education NC March 16, 2025

Industrial smokestacks directly emit particle pollution, but they also emit sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, which react in the atmosphere to form fine particle pollution. Photo courtesy U.S. EPA

Environmental Health

America’s clean air rules boost health and the economy — here’s what EPA’s new deregulation plans ignore

by The Conversation March 15, 2025March 15, 2025

Members of the Martin County Board of Commissioners seated at a dais during a meeting on Feb. 12, 2025. The board is working to reopen the shuttered Martin General Hospital as a Rural Emergency Hospital.

Martin County seeks operator to bring rural hospital back to life

by Jaymie Baxley March 14, 2025

A woman holds a young girl and is next to a bald man. He has prostate cancer.

State Health Policy

NC House bill would expand access to early screening for prostate cancer

by Grace Vitaglione March 13, 2025

Woman wearing a blue T-shirt with the words My Immune System Has Chose The Dark Side is hooked up to intravenous tubes in a health care clinic receiving treatment for pemphigus, an autoimmune condition that first presented with painful blisters and open sores in her mouth. Her medical odyssey illustrates the connection between oral and systemic health and dermatology.

Unraveling an oral health mystery leads to rare autoimmune diagnosis

by Anne Blythe March 12, 2025March 14, 2025

shows several people wearing scrubs sitting at desks, one leans into a file drawer another with her back to the camera stands at a computer console.

NC prisons struggle to meet health care demands amid rising costs, staff shortages

by Rachel Crumpler March 11, 2025