Dozens of people at a Monday night meeting in Bethel pleaded for their rural community health center to remain open after a recent announcement that the East Carolina University Clinic in Bethel would shut down.
After weeks of talks, drug industry lobbyists were growing nervous. To cut a deal with the White House on overhauling health care, they needed to be sure that President Obama would stop a proposal intended to bring down medicine prices.
A potentially dangerous sexually transmitted disease that infects millions of people each year is growing resistant to drugs and could soon become untreatable.
U.S. Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan visited North Carolina Wednesday to announce more than $500,000 in funding for two regional health centers.
A team of researchers found mothers who had fevers during their pregnancies were more than twice as likely to have a child with autism or a developmental delay.
A combination of drugs that acts as a sort of "smart bomb" against breast cancer cells without damaging healthy ones has undergone successful early testing.
Arguments over clean air and encouraging jobs are colliding over whether to cut back on North Carolina's regulation of toxic industrial chemicals in the air.
The number of people with cancer is set to surge by more than 75 percent across the world by 2030, with particularly sharp rises in poor countries as they adopt unhealthy "Westernized" lifestyles, a study said on Friday.
The 2012 Children's Miracle Network broadcast kicked off Friday night on WITN. It resumes on Sunday morning, and we need your support to help sick and injured children across Eastern Carolina.
After months of frigid temps, dodging rainstorms and wrapped in warm blankets, Memorial Day is the first holiday to celebrate the start of warmer weather.
The weak economy continues to have a harsh effect on workers’ access to health insurance -- not necessarily because workers aren’t offered it but because they can’t afford it.
