With flu activity higher than normal in North Carolina for this time of year, state health officials are urging residents to take time during the holidays to get vaccinated.

A program that offers assistance to residents with mental health disabilities has found a way to stay open after being on the verge of having to shutdown.

Most states are still expected to announce their choices by Friday, but a check by The Associated Press found that 16 states are still mulling over their decisions.

The risk for autism may be higher in children whose mothers had the flu or had a fever for more than a week during pregnancy.

Voters have decided a lot more than the presidential and congressional races.

State Health Director Laura Gerald said Wednesday that the unidentified patient was being monitored after having received a spinal steroid injection with one of the contaminated lots produced by the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass.

The U.S. death toll from a meningitis outbreak tied to contaminated steroid injections reached 25 on Friday following another death in Tennessee, the state where the problem was first discovered, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The Food and Drug Administration is cautioning parents about the dangers of over-the-counter eye drops and nasal decongestant sprays.

A new study is casting doubt on the theory that cranberry juice prevents bladder and kidney infections.

There are dangerous baby products that can cause injuries, even death, and some of them are still on store shelves.

The salmonella scare that wiped thousands of jars of peanut butter off the shelf, now stretches to shelled peanuts.

On Monday night at the Hendrix Auditorium on ECU's campus, the family of Kim Sibbach told their story. Kim was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in 2008 while she was still a student at ECU. In April of 2011, she passed away.

Two more drugs have been implicated in the ongoing outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to contaminated pain injections, federal health officials said Monday.

A basketball coach from the east tells WITN he is doing well following a kidney transplant over the weekend.

New research suggests shots that protect against cervical cancer do not make girls promiscuous.

Residents of several streets in New Bern are being told to boil their water after a water main break in the city.

Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler and Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry are among those who will talk Thursday about safety at the State Fair.

More mercury has been found in a Camp Lejeune water plant that was shut down last week.

If you have Frosted Mini-Wheats in your pantry, there's a recall you need to know about.

A child suffered a concussion after falling out of a high chair that is now under recall.

Lifequest Inc. in Washington in Beaufort County, a medicaid-funded program that helps adults with mental health issues be independent, has been told it has less than 30 days before it might have to close its doors.

A Nash County woman will have to pay more than $1.7million in restitution after pleading guilty to health care fraud.

North Carolina health officials say a Davidson County resident has died from complications of fungal meningitis she likely contracted from a tainted steroid injection in her back.

Health officials say a rare meningitis outbreak has sickened 26 people in five states who received steroid injections for back pain. Four people have died.

The new finding offers hints that one type of breast cancer might be vulnerable to drugs that already work against ovarian cancer.