Once sustained on shoestring budgets, peer-run mental health spaces are expanding across North Carolina as state and local leaders invest in programs led by people with lived experience.

A Moore County lawsuit claims sexual abuse at Jackson Springs Treatment Center, spotlighting issues in background checks and oversight of NC youth psychiatric facilities.

Despite serving one of the communities hit hardest by fentanyl deaths, the Richmond County Rescue Mission has been denied settlement funds for two years.

A for-profit psychiatric hospital in Raleigh is expanding its services to military members and partnering with local police after a yearslong record of state and federal sanctions.

A dangerous incident involving at least a dozen patients and employees at Raleigh’s Holly Hill Hospital late last year has reignited scrutiny of the for-profit psychiatric facility, which has a yearsl...

Disability Rights NC spent a year investigating the state’s overuse of the legal procedure, which leaves patients locked up at a high cost with few rights.

NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

The center offers walk-in behavioral health urgent care and a no-barriers peer living room and diverts people from jails and the ER.

Provisions in the senate budget would repeal NC’s hospital capacity regulation laws, trim vacant state jobs and increase child care subsidy rates.

Repurposed newspaper racks are giving residents free, discreet access to supplies that can reduce their risk of overdose and death.

Federal workers, grant recipients worry as they await details of a restructuring plan promoted by US DHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Layoff notices began arriving early Tuesday for thousands of employees of HHS and its subsidiary agencies, with as many 10,000 workers potentially expected to be hit by the cuts.

Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”

Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.

North Carolina's (mostly free) mental health crisis services are expanding. Here’s what they do and how to find them.

New treatment programs in jails and the community seek to reduce wait times and take a load off the state’s three psychiatric hospitals.

North Carolina's (mostly free) mental health crisis services are expanding. Here’s what they do and how to find them.

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

A 90% reduction in funding for a federal program that helps people obtain health insurance could mean less support for WNC residents.

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ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Funding reductions proposed by Congress threaten hospitals, children’s health and local economies in rural communities.

Addiction Professionals of North Carolina launched a public awareness campaign about patient brokers, who refer patients to certain treatment facilities in exchange for kickbacks.

North Carolina is launching a $20M pilot end law enforcement transportation of mental health patients being involuntarily committed.

The respite house opening in Wake County signals North Carolina’s evolving approach to mental health, with the state increasing investment in peer-run programs.

A yearlong study finds an alarming trend about the distribution of microplastics in a remote section of a mountain watershed.

Researchers attribute a rise in autism diagnoses to increased screening and changing definitions of the condition. Hundreds of studies have found childhood vaccines to be safe.

In the midst of a mental health crisis, finding a therapist who takes your insurance can feel impossible. Insurers say that’s because there aren’t enough the...

State teams treated over 1,000 patients and navigated washed-out roads, providing life-saving care in areas cut off by catastrophic flooding.

Mobile wastewater units bridge the gap as the town brings its damaged sewage treatment plant back online eight weeks after Hurricane Helene.

This award-winning series of stories reported in late 2018 explores how Switzerland, France and other European countries implemented drug policies and programs that have diminished their rates of opio...