Updated: 3:28 PM Eleven nurses at Pitt County Memorial Hospital have been named to the "Great 100 Nurses" list for North Carolina.

Posted: 7:23 AM Accidental overdoses in kids have gone up 20 percent in recent years, now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are launching a campaign to prevent them from happening.

Posted: 6:10 AM New research suggests MRI's may be unnecessary for patients being treated for back pain.

Updated: 9:58 AM Are working moms happier than stay-at-home moms? One study says yes, setting off a topic moms are sure to debate.

Updated: 9:58 PM House of Raeford recalled more than 4,100 pounds of cooked chicken breasts which may be contaminated with bacteria shipped to delicatessens and food service institutions for further processing in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

Updated: 12:34 PM Baking cookies is very popular this time of year and many of us love sneaking a bite of that cookie dough before it gets put in the oven, but now a new report may have you thinking twice.

Updated: 6:58 PM University Health System of Eastern Carolina, which next month will change its name to Vidant Health, had revenues of $1.3 billion in 2011.

Updated: 1:28 PM The nation's health secretary says young teenagers cannot buy the Plan B morning-after pill without a prescription -- a surprise move overruling her own experts, who were preparing to let it be sold on drugstore shelves like condoms.

Posted: 6:51 AM A new study of pregnant women suggests rice continues to be a source of arsenic in our diet.

Posted: 8:59 PM Researchers at the Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital have almost finished a study that could determine new treatment for troops suffering from a traumatic brain injury.

Updated: 9:12 PM Alternative medicine is not so alternative these days, as four out of 10 adults are now turning to natural remedies to help with certain health problems.

Posted: 6:21 AM Some new research could change the time of day you schedule your baby's doctors appointments for.

Updated: 1:40 PM President Barack Obama set an ambitious goal Thursday for significantly increasing access to life-saving AIDS drugs for people in the U.S. and around the world.

Updated: 10:21 AM There will soon be a new name for the largest hospital in Eastern Carolina.

Updated: 3:42 PM Consumer Reports says its study found 10 percent of the samples had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking-water standards.

Updated: 7:27 AM If a few extra pounds are not on your Christmas wish list, we can help.

Posted: 6:46 AM Doctors are again facing steep Medicare cuts that could undermine health care for millions of seniors and disabled people, unless Congress acts by Jan. 1 to stave them off.

Posted: 6:24 AM More parents are opting out of school shots for their kids. An Associated Press analysis found that in eight states. not including North Carolina, more than 1 in 20 public school kindergartners aren't getting all the vaccines required for attendance.

Updated: 9:13 PM I'll show you how all my hard work paid off with my weigh-in and measurements, and answer some of your questions you posted on Facebook.

Posted: 12:22 PM Health officials say birth rates for the nation's youngest mothers hit new lows last year.

Updated: 1:21 PM 1,400 cases of Kotex tampons have been recalled after potentially dangerous bacteria was found on some of the applicators.

Updated: 9:29 AM Carteret County officials have issued a boil water advisory for people in the North River/Mill Creek water system.

Posted: 3:59 AM An aging population and demographic changes could mean that one in 10 adults could have diabetes by 2030.

Posted: 3:16 PM A documentary that tells the story of water contamination at Camp Lejeune that may have poisoned as many 1 million people is coming home for the Veterans Day weekend.

Updated: 11:37 AM The chorus began quietly at a recent strategy session inside Zuccotti Park, with a single cough from a security team member, a muffled hack between puffs on his cigarette. Then a colleague followed. Then another.