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Approximately 6,800 people in North Carolina have sickle cell disease, of which approximately 95% are Black or African American.
Published: Monday, June 17th, 2024 @ 4:50 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Coronary heart disease is another risk.
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 @ 1:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is launching a new Statewide Peer Warmline on Feb. 20, 2024. The new Peer Warmline will work in tandem with the North Carolina 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by giving callers the option to speak with a Peer Support Specialist.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 @ 1:29 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The "evidence" is a brochure
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2024 @ 7:48 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Suicide is a statewide and national public health crisis impacting people of all ages across all socioeconomic, racial and ethnic backgrounds. Suicide awareness is key to saving lives, and with September recognized as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
Published: Monday, October 2nd, 2023 @ 8:14 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Newly-released data suggests that 99% of the new COVID deaths reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may primarily be attributed to other causes.
Published: Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 @ 7:51 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website appeared to have quietly stopped collecting COVID-19 vaccine adverse events on the federal agency’s V-safe website earlier this summer.
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 @ 11:25 pm
By: Daily Wire
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President Joe Biden said Friday that he will ask Congress for additional funding for the development of a new COVID vaccine.
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 @ 1:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A local man has been rushed to the hospital this morning with life-threatening injuries sustained from sleeping in a slightly different position than he normally does.
Published: Friday, September 15th, 2023 @ 3:46 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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The U.S. public health emergency that was declared to respond to COVID-19 ends today. North Carolina will continue to distribute the federally funded COVID-19 vaccines and tests for free to individuals who are uninsured while supplies last.
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 1:18 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Stephanie Brinson is an advanced practice registered nurse seeing thousands of patients a year, along with five other APRNs, in a Garner practice open seven days week.
Published: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 1:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Masks will be optional for healthy patients, visitors and team members
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 @ 1:04 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced changes to its COVID-19 dashboard and state-funded testing sites as the federal public health emergency comes to an end May 11, 2023
Published: Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 8:31 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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House Bill 98 would make long overdue changes to prohibit state and local governments, public schools, and universities from requiring Covid vaccination or discriminating against the unvaccinated, and it would also protect schoolchildren from being forced to wear masks
Published: Saturday, March 18th, 2023 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A troubling trend for youth mental health and suicide rates emerges from a new annual report released Feb. 27 by the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force.
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2023 @ 8:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The chair of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Department of Medicine stated that in large gatherings, he plans “to wear a mask … likely forever.”
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2023 @ 1:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A newly published journal article available from the U.S. National Institute of Health’s PubMed Central (PMC) repository offers — to put it mildly — a novel reason for the averred side effects of the Covid-19 vaccines.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 2:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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ECU-led telepsychiatry program earns state award for technology innovation
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2022 @ 11:17 pm
By: ECU News Services
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People who test positive for COVID-19, particularly those who are uninsured or don’t have a primary care doctor, will have better access to treatments thanks to a time-limited telemedicine program launched by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
Published: Thursday, December 15th, 2022 @ 4:40 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Thanks to precautionary measures followed strictly by local man Heber Boarwinkle, the dangerous airborne COVID-19 virus was unable to spread to his masked chin.
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2022 @ 12:05 am
By: Babylon Bee
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A new study revealed the rise in children going to the hospital for suicidal thoughts, which began to go up before the COVID pandemic and lockdowns.
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2022 @ 7:57 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is refreshing the COVID-19 dashboards to enhance design and user experience.
Published: Saturday, November 12th, 2022 @ 11:05 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Children and teens 5 and older can now receive the updated COVID-19 booster, specifically made to protect against the latest COVID-19 variants.
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 @ 6:31 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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covid shots could me required
Published: Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 @ 7:35 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Public health officials with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services see a decrease in flu vaccinations compared to previous years and urge North Carolinians 6 months and older to get their flu shot before the end of October
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2022 @ 1:05 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Although most families are hoping that back to school means back to normal, there are still some wanting to go back to forced masking, social distancing, isolated lunches outside, daily testing, lengthy quarantines, and even virtual schooling despite the learning loss that results
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 4:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Suicide is among the top five leading causes of death for people ages 10 to 65 in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 11:09 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced Monday that the state is lifting its COVID restrictions for schools to align with updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 6:54 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Pfizer and BioNTech have requested that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grant an emergency use authorization for its COVID vaccine adapted to the BA.4/BA.5 versions of the Omicron variant.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 6:21 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The masks are off in most parts of the nation, but it appears as though the Biden administration will extend the COVID public health emergency declaration past the current mid-October deadline.
Published: Sunday, August 28th, 2022 @ 10:10 am
By: Daily Wire
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden, claimed on Sunday that critics do not like him because those critics “deny reality.”
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2022 @ 10:09 am
By: Daily Wire
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Even though most Americans are sick of it, the top U.S. immunologist says we’ll all be dealing with COVID for decades.
Published: Monday, August 1st, 2022 @ 9:26 am
By: Daily Wire
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Info on subvarients
Published: Thursday, July 21st, 2022 @ 9:18 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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