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Innovative UNC program uses students to fill health care gaps
A new course, first offered last semester, trains undergraduate college students to serve as hospital sitters who help keep patients safe.
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Interactive: Childhood Poverty in North Carolina – County Data
As Christmas nears, many children will be anticipating a visit from Santa. But despite drops in North Carolina’s unemployment rate and a slowly recovering economy, many of North Carolina’s children ...
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Blood transfusions at the scene save lives. But ambulances are rarely equipped to do them.
More than 60,000 people in the U.S. bleed to death every year from traumatic events, like car crashes, or other emergencies.
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Bills taking aim at ‘government mandates’ on health insurance could hamper prior authorization reforms
The proposed legislation defines health benefit mandates as certain regulations on health insurance plans, including things ...
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Trump’s executive orders spark anxiety among NC’s transgender, nonbinary community
Katie Jenifer, an Orange County mother, has navigated what she said feels like endless restrictions on her transgender daughter, now 17, who transitioned about 10 years ago — first socially at the age ...
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As ICE policy shifts, NC health care workers face uncertainty
Trump, directives, immigration, immigrant, healthcare, ICE, hospital, clinics, challenges, LATIN-19, know your rights, Duke, UNC ...
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Insurance companies tighten coverage as U.S. faces growing risk from natural disasters
While insurance companies press for higher premiums from policyholders to cover liability, state insurance commissioners are fiercely negotiating with the companies to keep rates as low as possible to ...