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Tag: Pamlico County

Posted inRural Health

In rural America, deadly costs of opioids outweigh the dollars tagged to address them

by KFF Health News December 13, 2022December 13, 2022

By Aneri Pattani and Rae Ellen Bichell Kaiser Health News Tim Buck knows by heart how many people died from drug overdoses in his North Carolina county last year: 10. The year before it was 12 — an all-time high. Those losses reverberate deeply in rural Pamlico County, a tightknit community of 12,000 on the state’s eastern […]

Shows a cedar shingle sided building with neon signs on it, "Fresh Local Seafood" and "Oysters" on the awning
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Socially sustainable seafood requires diligence, scrutiny

by Coastal Review Online October 18, 2022October 17, 2022
Shows text supporting Medicaid expansion that reads: The Graham County Commissioners strongly give their full support to Representative Kevin Corbin for House Bill 655... The Graham County Board of Commissioners understand that the majority of uninsured inividuals in North Carolina are employed, but do not make enough money to afford health insurance coverage."
Posted inHealth Insurance

Business leaders, conservatives across state warm to Medicaid expansion

by Rose Hoban October 3, 2019March 6, 2023
shows a grouping of hot dog shaped bacteria, each with a single hairlike appendage, called a flagellum. It's a picture of vibrio vulnificus
Posted inInfectious Disease

Vibrio survivor, wife warn of bacteria’s risks

by Coastal Review Online September 6, 2019September 4, 2019
A county by county map of US colored to show opioid death risk, including access to medication-assisted treatment
Posted inSubstance Use

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

by Yen Duong July 23, 2019July 23, 2019
a pretty white church with a red door sits in the background, in front of the building is a large pile of wooden debris
Posted inRural Health

With Homes Destroyed by Florence, this Tiny ENC County Struggles to Find a Foothold

by Thomas Goldsmith November 2, 2018September 6, 2022

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