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A troubling new report from Louisiana shows how the state's abortion ban from 2022 is forcing doctors to delay or withhold medical care in ways that make pregnancy more dangerous.
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The North Carolina State Health Plan Board of Trustees voted to remove coverage of GLP-1 weight loss medicines like Wegovy and Saxenda.
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A forum in Charlotte on Tuesday focused on providing Black women the tools to handle their health through pregnancy and childbirth and find ways the health care system can better support them.
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Black women are two to three times more likely to die from complications due to pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A forum in Charlotte on Tuesday will look at ways to improve the odds.
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The dental schools at East Carolina University and the University of Florida received a research grant aimed at providing healthcare to rural areas in North Carolina.
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RIP Medical Debt is a charity that erases people's medical debt by buying that debt directly from hospitals. But Charlotte’s two largest hospitals, Atrium Health and Novant Health, aren’t selling. Michelle Crouch wrote about it for the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter and N.C. Health News. She joined us on Morning Edition.
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Reproductive health care providers say North Carolina’s new abortion law makes it harder for patients to obtain care and for providers to offer it. Data shows a 31% decline in abortions one month after the law took effect July 1.
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In the largest health care strike in U.S. history, over 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and medical facilities across the U.S. walked off the job on Wednesday morning.
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For several decades, North Carolina has ranked in the bottom 25 across the country for the number of dentists per 10,000 people in the state.
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A couple of bills under consideration at the General Assembly this year could dramatically loosen regulations for two of North Carolina's largest health care institutions.