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Author Archives: Melba Newsome

Melba Newsome is an award-winning freelance writer with more than 20 years' experience reporting on news and features. Her feature credits in many prominent publications including the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Oprah, Playboy, Reader’s Digest, Time, Good Housekeeping and Wired. Melba also is a frequent contributor to such online sites as NBCNews and Healthline.

Thanks to a Crisis Reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center, she will be reporting extensively on the physiological, emotional, and societal impact of the novel coronavirus for NC Health News.

shows the back of a wheelchair, with an old and wizened hand on the arm of the chair
Posted inAging

Project ECHO resounds throughout WNC

by Melba Newsome January 29, 2021January 28, 2021
shows hands handling a syringe and a vial of liquid medication, to represent the process of drawing up COVID vaccine
Posted inMinority Health

The bumpy road to vaccine trial participation – Part II

by Melba Newsome January 13, 2021January 26, 2021
Shows a masked woman giving a shot to another masked woman.
Posted inMinority Health

The bumpy road to vaccine trial participation – Part I

by Melba Newsome January 6, 2021March 30, 2021
an old postcard shows several red and white buildings nestled among mountains covered in trees. Several Western NC colleges like Mars Hill avoided large COVID outbreaks on campus
Posted inPublic Health

Western NC college students combat COVID

by Melba Newsome January 5, 2021January 26, 2021
Steve North and Amanda Martin of the Center for Rural Health Innovation, which administers the Spruce Pine-based MY Health-e-Schools program.
Posted inChildren's Health

School-based health centers fill rural provider vacuum

by Melba Newsome November 17, 2020February 8, 2021
Urban Ministries Center's leaders took a desolate area beyond Charlotte's Uptown and turned it into a supportive apartment community for people transitioning from homelessness.
Posted inHealth Inequities

Housing instability exacerbates the pandemic for the most vulnerable

by Melba Newsome November 12, 2020January 27, 2021

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