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Youth voices from North Carolina’s hurricanes – Part 2

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Youth voices from North Carolina’s hurricanes – Part 2 - North Carolina Health News

NC Health News worked with Wilmington-based Coastal Youth Media to hold a workshop this fall with a group of young people from southeastern counties. Journalists and community organizers worked with these high school students to help them write essays on how they and their families made it through 2018's Hurricane Florence. For this holiday week, we present their stories.

Worry, relief, heartbreak. All in one storm. By Shecoria Smith When I heard the rain, I worried most about my dad. He had traveled across the country to California for work in the days before the hurricane. I thought it would be months before I saw him again. A few days later those worried feelings […]

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Youth voices from North Carolina’s hurricanes – Part 1

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Youth voices from North Carolina’s hurricanes – Part 1 - North Carolina Health News

NC Health News worked with Wilmington-based Coastal Youth Media to hold a workshop this fall with a group of young people from southeastern counties. Journalists and community organizers worked with these high school students to help them write essays on how they and their families made it through 2018's Hurricane Florence. For this holiday week, we present their stories.

Waterlogged and waiting for hope By Jonny Morales I was looking at family photos, baby clothes, diplomas and other waterlogged possessions while waiting for teary-eyed homeowners to give me permission to throw them away. Forever. We were only 10 miles away from my home, so damaged by Hurricane Florence, that I would not be able […]

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Robeson County residents still reeling from two prior hurricanes

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Robeson County residents still reeling from two prior hurricanes - North Carolina Health News

Nearly three years after Hurricane Matthew, many residents of the state’s second-poorest county are suffering mentally, physically and emotionally while the state grapples to provide relief funding. And now comes Dorian.

By Greg Barnes It’s been three years since Hurricane Matthew crashed into Robeson County, causing water to bubble up through the plumbing of Isa Alvarado’s mobile home and leaving behind a mold-infested mess. Alvarado, 63, didn’t vacate her Fairmont home after Matthew. She said she continued to live there, with her two children and a […]

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People with special medical needs fleeing Hurricane Dorian might end up at a Clayton church

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People with special medical needs fleeing Hurricane Dorian might end up at a Clayton church - North Carolina Health News

North Carolina has opened a specialized medical needs shelter in Clayton and a 600-plus bed mega-shelter in Durham as Hurricane Dorian whirls through the Atlantic Ocean toward storm-weary coastal communities.

By Anne Blythe As Hurricane Dorian churned in the Atlantic Ocean, frustrating the meteorologists trying to predict its path, there was a bit of calm before the coming storm Wednesday at a specialized medical emergency shelter in Clayton. Amy O’Connor, a registered nurse at Duke, and Logan Spears, an emergency room nurse at Duke Raleigh […]

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Keep up with how Hurricane Dorian is affecting health in NC

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Keep up with how Hurricane Dorian is affecting health in NC - North Carolina Health News

Throughout the day Thursday, we'll be posting news and information to help you navigate your way safely through Hurricane Dorian.

By Greg Barnes, Anne Blythe, Yen Duong, Thomas Goldsmith, Rose Hoban 4:45 p.m.- Follow-up story posted with farmer “I’m not complaining, but maybe it’s time for me to do something else,” said farmer Jody Clemmons in this story, a preliminary look at the effects of Dorian on N.C. farmers: Hurricane Dorian thrashes farmer’s tobacco crop. […]

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Matthew & Florence taught NC lessons: Storms like Dorian threaten old people

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Matthew & Florence taught NC lessons: Storms like Dorian threaten old people - North Carolina Health News

The serious perils that older people in North Carolina face during hurricanes are lurking again in the gales and rainy torrents of the powerful storm Dorian. Across the state, prepared professionals and private citizens are stepping up to minimize harm.

By Thomas Goldsmith The specters of catastrophic hurricanes Matthew in 2016 and Florence last year are looming darkly over this week’s preparations for Hurricane Dorian, the latest unwanted newcomer to the Tar Heel State. Across North Carolina on Wednesday, older people and those charged with looking after them made preparations, checked registries of vulnerable residents, […]

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Hurricane Florence left destruction but also information on how to prepare for and respond to the next disaster

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Hurricane Florence left destruction but also information on how to prepare for and respond to the next disaster - North Carolina Health News

Cedric Harrison of Support the Port in Wilmington and other community organizers with eyes, ears and boots on the ground highlight relief and recovery shortfalls.

By Anne Blythe Cedric Harrison grew up in Wilmington and saw his share of storms. Until last year he always sheltered in place when hurricane warnings sent North Carolina’s port city into an altered and frantic state. He had successfully ridden out major storms in his 30-some years before Hurricane Florence roiled the seas and […]

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Forty-one N.C. counties classified as “high risk” in new opioid study

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Forty-one N.C. counties classified as “high risk” in new opioid study - North Carolina Health News

In a national study, researchers classified 41 North Carolina counties as “opioid high-risk” with few providers of medication-assisted treatment and many opioid-related deaths.

By Yen Duong While conversations about the national opioid epidemic often focus on hardest-hit states such as Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, few people have analyzed county-by-county trends, where those state’s policies can make a difference. But a new study, published last month in an open-access version of the Journal of the American Medical Association, […]

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2019 Health & Human Services Budget – House & Senate

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2019 Health & Human Services Budget – House & Senate - North Carolina Health News

Just in time for the conference committee budget, here are how the Senate and the House of Representatives each proposed to spend on health and human services.

By Rose Hoban After 2018’s unusual budget process this year’s budget has unfolded in a more “traditional” way. The House unveiled it’s proposal to spend $5.569 billion on health and human services priorities in early May. The Senate finished it’s work on the budget in early June, asking for a total appropriation of $5.552 billion […]

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Samples suggest unreported coal ash spills

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Samples suggest unreported coal ash spills - North Carolina Health News

Researchers from Duke University examined coal ash solids found in sediments collected from Sutton Lake in 2015 and 2018 suggesting the lake has been contaminated by multiple spills.

By Trista Talton Coastal Review Online Coal ash found in the sediment at the bottom of Lake Sutton suggests multiple, unreported and unmonitored spills have occurred for years at Duke Energy’s former coal-fired plant near Wilmington, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Duke University. Sediment samples collected from the lake in 2015 […]

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