African American health

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Summer camps get creative to carry on in pandemic

August 6, 2020 by Aaliyah Bowden

Summer camps get creative to carry on in pandemic - North Carolina Health News

Some kids have faced social isolation during the pandemic with schools closing and being unable to see their friends. Some youth camps opened their doors in the summer so kids could engage with peers and learn instead of having their eyes glued to a screen. Despite having to wear a mask at camp, campers were still able to swim and meet new friends this summer.

By Aaliyah Bowden Eleven-year-old Averie M. spent time this summer learning how to zipline, rock climb and do gymnastics at a summer camp in Transylvania County. “The activities were very fun and you tried new things that you didn’t think you would be able to do,” she said. Averie was lucky to go to sleep-away […]

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Waiting for a kidney during a pandemic

July 6, 2020 by Melba Newsome

Waiting for a kidney during a pandemic - North Carolina Health News

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on both routine kidney care and the number of transplants. At the same time, the estimated 37 million American adults with chronic kidney disease are at greater risk of contracting the virus.

By Melba Newsome This story is co-published by NC Health News, the Charlotte Post and the Charlotte Observer. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Traci Evans Simmons’ job as an assistant in a pediatric medical practice normally brings her into contact with many people every day, a fact that unnerved her when the […]

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Coronavirus Today – June 9 – Action against Alamance speedway; contact tracing after the races; Governor to get tested

June 9, 2020 by Editor

Coronavirus Today – June 9 – Action against Alamance speedway; contact tracing after the races; Governor to get tested - North Carolina Health News

State takes action against Ace Speedway, saying the races and crowds put the public at ‘imminent risk.’

Alamance speedway ordered to close The Alamance County speedway that has held at least three races in defiance of Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive order limiting crowd sizes during the coronavirus pandemic challenged the state to take action against it. Now the state has. On Tuesday, the state Department of Health and Human Services issued an […]

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Coronavirus Today – May 28 – Bars, senators and Cooper; COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations increase; NC poet laureate joins information campaign

May 28, 2020 by Editor

Coronavirus Today – May 28 – Bars, senators and Cooper; COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations increase; NC poet laureate joins information campaign - North Carolina Health News

As NC bar owners cry foul, lawmakers look to weaken the governor’s executive order.

By North Carolina Health News staff Senate wants to open bars outdoors as hospitalizations rise The state Senate approved a proposal that would allow bars to open in outdoor spaces at half their capacity or for no more than 100 people despite the governor’s safer-at-home order prohibiting such action due to concerns of spreading coronavirus. […]

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Coronavirus Today – April 15 – Research, tests and the need for gradual changes

April 15, 2020 by Editor

Coronavirus Today – April 15 – Research, tests and the need for gradual changes - North Carolina Health News

Senate leader Phil Berger announced a research initiative to take look back at who may have had COVID-19, while Gov. Roy Cooper and Sec. Mandy Cohen worry the state lacks enough to do adequate disease tracking.

More testing, more tracing, even more attention to COVID-19 trends Gov. Roy Cooper offered a more detailed look at what needs to happen when North Carolina begins to ease restrictions in place now to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed with patients infected with COVID-19. He outlined a three-part plan that includes wider-spread testing for the […]

Farmers market in Charlotte, NC, this one doesn't accept SNAP

It’s no SNAP getting fresh produce to those who need it

July 16, 2019 by Yen Duong

It’s no SNAP getting fresh produce to those who need it - North Carolina Health News

Right now, only two of Mecklenburg County’s 18 farmers markets accept SNAP. The city of Charlotte and the county are trying to change that.

By Yen Duong In 1941, Norman and David Simpson’s grandfather started selling produce from the family farm off the back of his truck at a nondescript Charlotte corner. By 1978, their father was there, just outside the central business district of Uptown, every Tuesday and Friday. By the time Norman and David took over the […]

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N.C. uses new federal money to get people into drug treatment, but most of them are white

July 8, 2019 by Taylor Knopf

N.C. uses new federal money to get people into drug treatment, but most of them are white - North Carolina Health News

Millions in grant money have come to the state in the past two years to reduce the number of people using opioids, but state data show racial disparities in who’s benefiting.

By Taylor Knopf State officials announced last month that more than 12,000 people with substance use disorder entered addiction treatment since North Carolina received $54 million in federal grant funding to address the opioid crisis. Opioid addiction is widespread in North Carolina, and an average of five people die per day from overdose. It affects […]

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Black women more likely to die of breast cancer – especially in the South

May 22, 2019 by Pew Trusts

Black women more likely to die of breast cancer – especially in the South - North Carolina Health News

Treatment advances have improved breast cancer survival rates among all U.S. women, but the disparity between white and black women has grown, especially in the Southeast.

By Max Blau Stateline When Felicia Mahone was 27, she felt her breast and found a mass. Breast cancer had killed nearly all the women in her family — her mother, two aunts and two cousins. Her doctor, though, downplayed the lump, assuring her everything would be all right. For months, Mahone resumed her busy […]

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Separate and not equal: Remembering Charlotte’s Good Samaritan Hospital

February 26, 2019 by Yen Duong

Separate and not equal: Remembering Charlotte’s Good Samaritan Hospital - North Carolina Health News

For decades, Charlotte's Good Sam Hospital provided care to the African American community. While loved for it's role in the community, many knew there was better facilities to be had.

By Yen Duong When Charlotte’s Good Samaritan Hospital was built in 1891, no one wanted to go. “Everybody went over there died,” said Thereasea Clark Elder, 92, a former public health nurse who worked at Good Samaritan for 14 years. “When I was young I used to see people in the community caring for the […]

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Mecklenburg among top focus locations in Trump HIV plan.

February 6, 2019 by Editor

Mecklenburg among top focus locations in Trump HIV plan. - North Carolina Health News

The president’s plan to “eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States” will bring targeted help to the Queen City, which has the state’s highest rates of the disease.

By Yen Duong, Rose Hoban and Taylor Knopf In his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump vowed to end the transmission of HIV infections in the United States by 2030. “My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in 10 years,” Trump […]

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