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Tag: Stokes County

Masked male dentist and masked female hygienist drill inside a patients mouth
Posted inFeatured

Taking dental care to the people in need

by Anne Blythe March 30, 2023March 29, 2023

By Anne Blythe Few would fault Bill Milner if he decided it was time to slip out of his scrubs and retire from dentistry, then go off and travel the world. At age 73, he has been tending to teeth in North Carolina for nearly half a century. He has been honored by his peers. […]

a woman with her hair piled on her head sits at a picnic table in a cardigan sweater.
Posted inChildren's Health

‘We are not thought of’: The true impact of Western North Carolina’s maternal desert on rural women

by Carolina Public Press and Daily Yonder January 20, 2023January 20, 2023
Boxes of Naloxone injections
Posted inRural Health

Gaps in NC addiction treatment disproportionately hit rural residents of color

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven June 6, 2022June 6, 2022
Two glass vials that say "Naloxone HCL" and two wrapped syringes rest on a metal shelf at a needle exchange facility. In the background is a paper instructions on using the medication to reverse an opioid overdose
Posted inRural Health

NC organizations fighting the rural opioid crisis receive a $4M federal boost

by Liora Engel-Smith August 14, 2020January 29, 2021
We see a hand holding a cardboard sign that says, "#Free Them All" sticking out the passenger window of a compact white car passing the Durham County Detention Facility. The car is part of a caravan of protestors calling for the release of inmates who are unable to pay bail during the pandemic. It's Father's Day, 2020.
Posted inPrison Health

Even as NC’s COVID numbers stabilize, jail outbreaks spike

by Hannah Critchfield August 11, 2020January 29, 2021
A field scientist drags a cloth across the ground to gather ticks
Posted inChronic Disease

Ticks continue creeping southward in North Carolina

by Greg Barnes August 5, 2020August 6, 2020

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