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Most people will remember April 4, 1968 as the day that Martin Luther King was assassinated. While that was a more histrionically important event, that date will always seired in my mind as the date of a battle we fought in Vietnam. I was only in country for a couple of months and the loss of comr
Published: Monday, May 29th, 2023 @ 2:14 am
By: Tony Adams
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A Portland rioter who was previously given probation for assaulting a federal contract worker was given 12.5 years in jail for killing his 3-month-old infant child.
Published: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 10:22 am
By: Daily Wire
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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is seeking FDA approval for a first-of-its-kind vaccine aimed at protecting infants from the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), but trial data shows the shot failed to meet one of its two main goals.
Published: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 2:33 am
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is cautioning families about certain infant formula that has been recalled by Perrigo for potentially containing a bacteria that can lead to illness in infants.
Published: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 10:58 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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RALEIGH — The North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force (Task Force) has submitted its 2023 Annual Report to Governor Cooper and the NC General Assembly.
Published: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 @ 3:06 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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On Thursday, the North Carolina Senate will vote on Senate Bill 20, the “Safe Surrender Infants” bill, which aims to expand the state’s newborn safe surrender law.
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 @ 2:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A heart warming story about Ann Margret and her Vietnam gentlemen.
Published: Thursday, December 29th, 2022 @ 4:46 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration has approved the bivalent COVID vaccine for babies as young as six months old.
Published: Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 @ 10:34 am
By: Daily Wire
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RALEIGH — Families participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) can now purchase more sizes and types of Gerber formula thanks to efforts by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to support families
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 @ 5:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCDHHS taking action to help increase access
Published: Sunday, May 22nd, 2022 @ 11:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Decriminalize killing newborns days or weeks after birth
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 1:11 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is cautioning families about certain infant formula that has been recalled by Abbott for potentially containing a bacteria that can lead to hospitalization in infants.
Published: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 8:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Just in time for Veterans Day, I've once again had the privilege of interviewing a WWII veteran. My husband arranged for me to sit down with Cecil Hannaford, a local VFW member.
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 8:15 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Governor Roy Cooper today noted that North Carolina’s infant deaths in 2018 reached their lowest rate in the 31 years they have been tracked, decreasing for a third straight year to 6.8 deaths per 1,000 live births down 4.2 percent from the previous year’s rate of 7.1 per 1000 live births.
Published: Monday, October 21st, 2019 @ 7:07 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating the death of a 6-week-old infant girl.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating the death of a 6-week-old infant girl.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ 5:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina health leaders are promoting new oral health guidance to advance maternal and infant health.
Published: Friday, January 18th, 2019 @ 12:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina's infant mortality rate decreased to 7.1 deaths per 1,000 births, compared with a 2016 rate of 7.2 and a 2015 rate of 7.3, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' 2017 infant mortality rates
Published: Thursday, November 8th, 2018 @ 7:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released its Health Equity Report for 2018, which shows progress and areas for continued improvement for a healthier North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 3:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The deaths of several newborns at a Cary birth center may complicate efforts to integrate midwives further into North Carolina’s health-care system
Published: Wednesday, March 28th, 2018 @ 12:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I truly wish that our founding fathers had been a bit more clear on what they meant when writing the 2nd Amendment but numerous contemporaneous writings clearly show their intent was for individual possession and ownership of firearms.
Published: Saturday, March 17th, 2018 @ 9:06 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The infant mortality rate remains frustratingly high in North Carolina compared to the national average, a report from the state Department of Health and Human Services finds
Published: Monday, November 13th, 2017 @ 10:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's infant mortality rate dipped by 1.4 percent in 2016 to 7.2 deaths per 1,000 births, compared with the 2015 rate of 7.3 infant deaths
Published: Wednesday, October 11th, 2017 @ 10:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is joining citizens and partner organizations across the United States to celebrate August as National Breastfeeding Month
Published: Thursday, August 10th, 2017 @ 2:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Infant-Toddler Program's federal Part C grant application is available for public review and comment. The public review period is Feb. 6-March 7, and the public comment period is March 8-April 6
Published: Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 @ 4:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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For many civilians, the memories of a military event are an abstract memory. However, for the participants it is the faces, names, and specific events that mark the event. Here are some of their stories.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 4:56 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Below are some pictures from the Charlie Company Website. This was the field meals as delivered by helicopter in case quantity. Usually the case was opened (sometimes using the old M16 prong flash suppressor as shown on left below – put over wire and twist until broken) and then turned upside down
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 2:40 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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They were true "life savers" - and that ain't no lie.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2016 @ 9:01 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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My son said that saying use to make him so mad he could scream.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 11:06 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Charlie Haughey was the battalion photographer for my battalion in the 25th Division during my time in Vietnam.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 4:25 am
By: Bobby Tony
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It is epidemic, it is academic, and do we take it seriously? Another, more salient question that begs to be asked: How did this pathetic behavior evolve to such a level of incredible ineptitude in such a broad swath of humankind?
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 9:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health announced North Carolina's Infant Mortality Rate for 2014 was 7.1 per 1,000 live births. This figure represents a slight increase from the lowest rates recorded; a rate of 7.0 per 1,000 live births for...
Published: Monday, October 12th, 2015 @ 11:17 am
By: Chris Downey
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I doubt if there will ever be a robot that can calculate the value of a human life.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:46 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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No battle field action is reported in this introduction to the jungle. Combat veterans provide the books and movies.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 5:27 am
By: Ted McDonald
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The Public Health Division of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced that North Carolina's Infant Mortality Rate for 2013 was 7.0 per 1,000 live births.
Published: Wednesday, October 1st, 2014 @ 8:51 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Between 90,000 and 100,000 Americans are living with sickle cell disease today and approximately 125 infants are born with it every year in North Carolina - 25 of them in eastern North Carolina. September has been designated National Sickle Cell Awareness Month to increase awareness of their plight.
Published: Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 @ 9:57 pm
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University researchers are studying the impact that exercise during pregnancy can have on newborn babies and moms.
Published: Monday, July 7th, 2014 @ 1:34 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Infant Terrell Latef Keyes Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Terrell and Crystal Keyes, 3917 Apperson Drive, Raleigh, entrusted to the Ministry of Care, Mercedes' Funeral Mansion & Cremation Service, Williamston
Published: Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 @ 2:42 pm
By: Announcements
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Infant Skylaar Gabrielle Williams was born and died Friday, Sept. 2, 2011, at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
Published: Friday, September 9th, 2011 @ 1:49 pm
By: Announcements
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Infant Nevaeh Ann Sullivan died Sunday April 3, 2011 at the Beaufort County Medical Center of Washington.
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2011 @ 9:06 pm
By: Announcements
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BCMC and the N.C. Healthy Start Foundation will partner to give onesies to every baby born at the Medical Center in October for National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month.
Published: Friday, October 8th, 2010 @ 8:54 pm
By: BCN
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