North Carolina had the 10th-highest infant mortality rate among states in 2023, according to the North Carolina Child ...

FILE -- Kody Kinsley, then Deputy Secretary at the N.C. DHHS, answers a question during a press conference in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, July 31, 2020.

For the past month, WFAE has been examining North Carolina’s broken mental health system, especially as it affects people in the criminal justice system. This week, we start to look at the ...

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline has discontinued its specialized support for LGBTQ+ youth, eliminating the "Press 3" option, following the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' decision to ...

The “Press 3 option” at the lifeline is gone, but NC public health leaders have trained call takers to work with LGBTQ+ people in crisis.

A transgender Western Carolina University student and local LGBTQ+ advocate is speaking out after the Trump administration’s ...

In North Carolina, about 50% of youth with mental health disorders do not receive necessary care. Youth are six times more likely to complete evidence-based treatment when it is offered in schools ...

In an open letter to Gov. Roy Cooper and Republican legislative leaders, 11 health-care groups and the N.C. Chamber warn that the state is nearing a mental-health services crisis in the wake of ...

Lack of access to mental health care inside North Carolina's prisons has an increasing number of advocates worried about a looming crisis.

A recent study in the policy journal, Health Affairs, found North Carolina ranks 32nd out of 50 states for Medicaid coverage of mental health. For example, reimbursement for a 50 minute session of ...

North Carolina hospitals have joined the growing number of organizations and governments in declaring racism a public health crisis. The N.C. Healthcare Association, which represents all 130 ...