February 13, 2012
A Charlotte man stuck with a $14,000 hospital bill he calls inflated and unreasonable wants North Carolina's Supreme Court to rule that courts are open to decide fairness.
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RALEIGH — The case of a man who was stuck with a $14,419 bill he calls inflated and unreasonable after three days of care in a Charlotte hospital is going to be heard by the North Carolina Supreme Court.The case, scheduled today, is upsetting offici...
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February 12, 2012
High Point Regional Health System officials say the hospital's "immediate jeopardy" status has been lifted by the agency that could have discontinued its Medicare funding.
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February 11, 2012
The number of Forsyth County behavioral-health patients experiencing a long wait for a state psychiatric hospital bed remains stubbornly high, according to a study by a Raleigh advocacy group.
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HIGH POINT -- High Point Regional Hospital has just hours to be cleared by the federal government to continue receiving Medicare funding.The hospital's Medicare funding was put in jeopardy following a December incident involving a patient.
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February 8, 2012
A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the novel product is not without its risks.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- A vice president at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure resigned Tuesday, saying the breast cancer charity should have stood by its politically explosive decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.
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February 7, 2012
Emily Byrd, a meteorologist at WGHP (Fox, Channel 8), was seriously injured in a fall Monday, according to a story posted on the TV station's website.
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Fourteen hospitals, including one in Asheville, agreed to pay more than $12 million to settle allegations they submitted false claims to Medicare, the Justice Department said today.
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February 6, 2012
Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.
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February 3, 2012
Many of Komen's affiliates across the country had openly rebelled against the decision to cut the funding, which totaled $680,000 in 2011.
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February 2, 2012
The money came from the estate of the widow of Charles Harris, a former leader of Lexington Telephone Co.
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A HealthServe official says it’s a prelude to an expansion, but county leaders express doubts.
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January 31, 2012
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is weighing in on a lawsuit over graphic cigarette warning labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs.
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January 27, 2012
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin spoke about the first nationwide health prevention plan at a gathering of public health workers in Raleigh today.
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January 26, 2012
The U.S. surgeon general is visiting North Carolina to talk to about 200 of the state's health advocates.
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Luke Neal had been away since September, when a biopsy revealed extensive liver damage.
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January 25, 2012
The new rules are the first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in 15 years.
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Gabrielle Giffords may be resigning from the U.S. House of Representatives, but her Asheville speech pathologist says: "You haven't heard the last of her yet."
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The International Association For Near Death Studies is a nonprofit research organization based in Durham
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January 24, 2012
A new North Carolina law aims to prevent infectious diseases like one that killed six residents at a Wayne County assisted living center in 2009.
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The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption.
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Two Gaston County high school wrestling coaches have been fired after an athlete was injured in practice.
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January 22, 2012
Cone Health Cancer Center sees a new future.
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RALEIGH -- Dr. Olushola J. Metiko is paid $201,000 a year as a top administrator at the state Central Prison Regional Medical Center, where he treats patients, oversees patient care and helps manage a facility that recently underwent a major expansion.
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