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By Michelle Crouch

Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger

Measles, once considered eliminated in the U.S., is back in a big way.

Driven by declining vaccine rates and growing vaccine hesitancy, the United States experienced its largest numb...


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By Ashley Fredde

North Carolina could face hundreds of millions of dollars in new costs — or risk losing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program entirely — if counties fail to meet new federal requirements, state lawmakers were warned Tuesday during a Joint Legislative Oversight Committee hearing in Raleigh. 

The new requirements were included in the ...


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By Jaymie Baxley

North Carolina has less than a year to implement a federal rule requiring “able-bodied” Medicaid participants to prove they are working, volunteering or attending school for at least 80 hours a month.

A provision of the federal budget — the One Big Beautiful Bill Act


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By Rachel Crumpler

Mecklenburg County sent the second-highest number of young people into North Carolina’s detention system last year — yet it has no juvenile detention center.

In 2025, 2,186 people were admitted to juvenile detention centers statewide, according to data provided to NC Health News by the


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