Thousands of former North Carolina state employees and their dependents who are on the Medicare Advantage base plan will see an increase in their healthcare premiums in 2025.
Rural, low-income, and older patients without access to broadband, smartphones, or tech skills may not be able to take their medications correctly if they can’t access printed labels.
From a manufacturing point of view, the chemicals are extremely useful. But from a consumer point of view, health concerns loom.
A federal judge has refused to issue an injunction blocking Novant Health’s $320 million purchase of two hospitals in Iredell County. The Federal Trade Commission had requested the injunction as part of a federal antitrust action.
House Committee discusses 'Right to Try' bill.
A settlement could be on the way for a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s use of in-patient psychiatric treatment for children in foster care. Lawyers on both sides of the dispute filed paperwork Monday seeking to delay court proceedings through July 15.
Tillis introduced a policy outline to improve Medicare physician training.
The issue spotlights reforms made in the North Carolina General Assembly to help reformed ex-offenders find work and become productive citizens again.
Yulia's Law, currently awaiting action in the NC Senate Rules Committee. would bar hospitals from denying organ transplants based on COVID vaccine status.
UNC Hospitals is raising questions about rival Duke Health System’s tactics in a certificate-of-need dispute at the North Carolina Court of Appeals. A UNC court filing Tuesday labeled Duke’s tactics “both transparent and misplaced.”
NC's thriving innovation economy is at risk, thanks to a provision in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act that discourages investment in an entire class of medicines known as "small molecules."
