Medicine

For residents of rural North Carolina, quality health care can seem nonexistent. Let alone affordable. Now, one of the only options for low-cost, low-barrier medical care is under threat: community health centers.

TikTok offers a window into patient experience for physician researchers. But they caution patients to be skeptical of 'Dr. TikTok'

NC biotech company Humacyte will receive an FDA decision this week that will determine whether their engineered tissue product can be made available for widespread use.

A bill called the PLASMA Act would require manufacturers to pay more of the cost for patients covered by the Medicare drug program.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center published the study showing a blood test can predict which patients will develop knee osteoarthritis up to eight years before it would show up on an X-ray.

Fayetteville Firefighters will have access to certain medication to expand its lifesaving services, including Tylenol.

The broad-acting snakebite treatment is in clinical trials at Duke University and around the world.

Multiple medications are available across NC for patients with severe COVID-19 infection. But whether they are being used or just sitting on the shelves can be hard to pin down.

Oxytocin is a naturally-occurring neurotransmitter involved in childbirth and is commonly given to induce labor.

States and health providers report they've dispensed less than half their supply from the government, raising fears that the drugs may go to waste while people who could benefit get sicker.