• Donate
  • Subscribe to Newsletter
  • Home
  • About
    • Awards & Recognition
    • Our Mission
    • Our Board
    • Be Our Sponsor!
    • Donors & Supporters
    • Editorial Policy & Terms of Use
    • Comments Policy
    • Our Team
  • Contact
  • Topics
    • Aging
    • Children’s Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Gender health
    • Health Inequities
    • Medicaid
    • Mental Health
    • Oral Health
    • Prison Health
    • Public Health
    • State Health Policy
    • Rural Health
  • Series
    • Voices from the pandemic
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • Youth climate stories: Outer Banks edition
    • Seeking Help and Getting Handcuffed
    • Unequal Treatment: Mental health parity in North Carolina
    • Storm stories – NC Health News works with teens from SE North Carolina to tell their hurricane experiences
    • Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S. could learn from them.
  • Health Care Half Hour
  • Health Care Job Listings
  • Coronavirus
  • En Español
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
North Carolina Health News

North Carolina Health News

News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.

  • Donate
  • Subscribe to Newsletter
Donate
  • Home
  • About
    • Awards & Recognition
    • Our Mission
    • Our Board
    • Be Our Sponsor!
    • Donors & Supporters
    • Editorial Policy & Terms of Use
    • Comments Policy
    • Our Team
  • Contact
  • Topics
    • Aging
    • Children’s Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Gender health
    • Health Inequities
    • Medicaid
    • Mental Health
    • Oral Health
    • Prison Health
    • Public Health
    • State Health Policy
    • Rural Health
  • Series
    • Voices from the pandemic
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • Youth climate stories: Outer Banks edition
    • Seeking Help and Getting Handcuffed
    • Unequal Treatment: Mental health parity in North Carolina
    • Storm stories – NC Health News works with teens from SE North Carolina to tell their hurricane experiences
    • Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S. could learn from them.
  • Health Care Half Hour
  • Health Care Job Listings
  • Coronavirus
  • En Español

Read our articles published in partnership with The Charlotte Ledger

Tag: preterm births

photo shows two women, one is holding a little baby and the other woman is gently handing the baby to the other woman.
Posted inGender health

NC’s maternal mortality strategy relies on ‘medical homes’

by Pew Trusts December 26, 2017October 3, 2022

By Michael Ollove Stateline When Hannah White first showed up at the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville three years ago, she was in trouble. She was 20 years old, a couple months into her first pregnancy and on the run from an abusive husband in Texas who already had broken her ribs in […]

Well water samples give scientists more insight into where the highests levels of manganese are likely to turn up in drinking water wells in the Piedmont. The N.C. State University researchers plotted where they found those sites in well sampling data. Much of them cluster atop the Carolina Slate Belt.
Posted inEnvironmental Health, Featured

Manganese in Wells More Widespread Than Previously Thought

by Catherine Clabby September 20, 2016July 14, 2017
Posted inChildren's Health, Featured, Mental Health, Public Health

Moms Of Sick Babies Face Critical Needs, Too

by Thomas Goldsmith September 6, 2016September 6, 2016
Posted inChildren's Health, NC Health Briefs, Public Health, Substance Use

CDC: Pregnant Women Continue to Light Up

by Editor February 12, 2016February 15, 2016
graph showing 20 year decrease in child death rates
Posted inChildren's Health, Featured, State Health Policy

Child Fatality Task Force Pushes ‘Baby Bundle’ In Short Session

by Editor May 21, 2014May 21, 2014
Infant mortality map
Posted inChildren's Health, Featured, Medicaid, Public Health

Infant Mortality Rates Tick Up for Second Year

by Editor October 18, 2013October 18, 2013

Posts navigation

1 2 Older posts

Subscribe to our Newsletter

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Latest News

Taking dental care to the people in need

Taking dental care to the people in need

March 30, 2023March 29, 2023
Amid Medicaid expansion celebration, advocates take a moment to reflect

Amid Medicaid expansion celebration, advocates take a moment to reflect

March 29, 2023March 28, 2023
Vulnerable NC Medicare Advantage enrollees face problems using ‘flex cards’ to pay utility bills

Vulnerable NC Medicare Advantage enrollees face problems using ‘flex cards’ to pay utility bills

March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

Post Types

  • Post (3,551)
  • Page (93)

Categories

  • Featured (3,076)
  • State Health Policy (1,092)
  • Public Health (1,089)
  • Infectious Disease (664)
  • Children's Health (578)

Tags

  • COVID-19 (622)
  • coronavirus (548)
  • NC General Assembly (512)
  • NC Department of Health and Human Services (456)
  • Gov. Roy Cooper (400)

Year

  • 2023 (67)
  • 2022 (301)
  • 2021 (383)
  • 2020 (494)
  • 2019 (308)

North Carolina Health News
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
© 2023 News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic
 

Loading Comments...