This page covers diseases in North Carolina, from outbreak alerts and risk studies to treatment approvals and awareness campaigns. Coverage is organized at the state level and follows the conditions affecting residents across the state.
The new telehealth service connects adults across North Carolina with headache specialists for migraines and other complex head pain conditions.
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Would you trust a virtual specialist to treat your chronic headaches?
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Do you plan to get a flu shot before Thanksgiving this year?
North Carolina's health department says flu cases and deaths are arriving earlier than usual this year.
A federal judge allowed scientific testimony from one Camp Lejeune kidney cancer trial to be used in a second, related case.
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Do you trust virtual primary care to provide the same quality of care as in-person visits?
The new program allows adult patients to access health care providers through secure video appointments from home.
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Should federal law place stricter limits on how insurance companies manage patient treatment approvals?
A state rheumatology delegation met with federal lawmakers to discuss medical access and insurance reimbursement hurdles.
This section follows outbreak alerts and the public health responses they set off, disease risk factor research, new treatments reaching patients, and clinical trial results from studies run in the state. It reaches from the Research Triangle to the Appalachian foothills and the coastal plain. Trial results and the treatment approvals that follow them often arrive months apart, so the two are reported separately. Access to care and rural distance from specialists are the two constraints that shape how most of these conditions play out across the state.
