Health

“Nurses are really designed for this work,” said award finalist Janice Hawkins.

The new community-based hospital will offer specialty care closer to home for Northeastern North Carolina.

Leaving medications in a hot car for extended periods of time can make them less effective or potentially dangerous. Certain medications can also make you more prone to heat illness.

A new Texas law that will provide up to $50 million to study ibogaine reflects growing government interest in psychedelic therapy research for mental health treatments

The hospital system estimates the change could reduce about 78,000 pounds of plastic waste each year.

Nearly 350 people in southeastern Virginia visited urgent care or emergency rooms with heat-related illness in late June.

The decision was a good ending for Evolution House, which had been violating county codes for several years at a home the organization rents on Richmond Road.

The illness is caused by a parasite, which makes it different from many well-known tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme.

Leadership at the LGBT Life Center and Minority AIDS Support Services say changes in state grants are forcing them to reassign, furlough staff.