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Rowan County Public Health celebrates National Public Health Week
The Rowan County Health Department announced its participation in National Public Health Week, a country-wide initiative aimed at ...
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Ester Marsh: The importance of weight lifting
I was talking to some of our members this past week about the importance of weight lifting. Studies ...
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As Medicaid purge begins, ‘staggering numbers’ of Americans lose coverage
By Hannah Recht KFF Health News More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since pandemic protections ended ...
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Cardiovascular disease is primed to kill more older adults, especially Blacks, Hispanics
By Judith Graham KFF Health News Cardiovascular disease — the No. 1 cause of death among people 65 ...
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Gun violence epidemic ‘locking us back in our room’
By Owen Racer KFF Health News NEW ORLEANS — Erin Brown recalls all too well the dreadful call ...
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Mood-altering mushroom sales bloom despite safety concerns
By Sam Ogozalek, Tampa Bay Times KFF Health News TAMPA, Fla. — When a hemp dispensary in this ...
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Mental Health Awareness Sneaker Ball held
CONCORD — Former Rowan County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jessica Argo assisted as an intern with Inspire of the ...
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Many living in ‘diabetes belt’ plagued with medical debt
By Robert Benincasa and Nick McMillan NPR and KFF Health News Delores Lowery remembers vividly the day in 2016 ...
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Denials of health insurance claims rising, getting weirder
By Elisabeth Rosenthal KFF Health News Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this ...
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Opioid overdoses continue to increase, funding from national settlement coming to hire more health department staff
SALISBURY — So far in 2023, the Rowan County Health Department has reported 321 opioid overdose cases between ...
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Panel will decide whose medicine to make affordable, but choice will be tricky
By Markian Hawryluk KFF Health News Catherine Reitzel’s multiple sclerosis medication costs nearly $100,000 a year. Kris Garcia ...
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Abortion bans driving off doctors, closing clinics
By Julie Rovner KFF Health News The rush in conservative states to ban abortion after the overturn of Roe ...
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A striking gap between deaths of Black, white babies plagues the South
By Lauren Sausser KFF Health News BAMBERG, S.C. — Years before the Bamberg County Hospital closed in 2012, ...
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Health department offers reminder of prenatal care, family services offered after passage of abortion bill
SALISBURY — With the passing of legislation that bans abortions after 12 weeks, the Rowan County Health Department ...
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Thousands face Medicaid whiplash in South Dakota, North Carolina
By Arielle Zionts KFF Health News Until recently, Jonathon Murray relied on Medicaid to pay for treatments for multiple ...
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Can a fetus be an employee? States testing boundaries of personhood
By Bram Sable-Smith KFF Health News CLAYTON, Mo. — Kaitlyn Anderson was six months pregnant when a driver killed ...
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Expectant mom needed $15,000 overnight to save her twins
By Renuka Rayasam KFF Health News It was Labor Day weekend 2021 when Sara Walsh, who was 24 ...
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Rowan Board of Health reports rise in pink eye infections
SALISBURY — Conjunctivitis, or “pink eye,” is the inflammation of the thin lining that covers the eyelid and ...
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The drug company that prospered without creating any drugs
By Arthur Allen KFF Health News The new drug looked so promising — except for that one warning ...
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Ester Marsh: You can’t out-exercise a bad diet
You cannot out-exercise a bad diet. I have mentioned this numerous times over the past. Too many people ...
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Most Americans say they or family member has experienced gun violence
By Liz Szabo KFF Health News A majority of Americans say they or a family member has experienced ...
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Fatigue common among older adults, and it has many possible causes
By Judith Graham Kaiser Health News Nothing prepared Linda C. Johnson of Indianapolis for the fatigue that descended ...
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ER error lands 4-year-old in collections (for care he didn’t receive)
By Daniel Chang Kaiser Health News Dr. Sara McLin thought she made the right choice by going to ...
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Judge’s decision would make some no-cost cancer screenings a thing of the past
By Julie Appleby and Michelle Andrews Kaiser Health News A federal judge has overturned a portion of the Affordable Care ...
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‘A great step:’ Health Department encouraged by FDA approval of over-the-counter Narcan
SALISBURY- Naloxone, a medication used to reverse opioid overdoses, was approved by the United States Food and Drug ...
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Mental health care by video fills gaps in rural nursing homes
By Tony Leys Kaiser Health News KNOXVILLE, Iowa ― Bette Helm was glad to have someone to talk with ...
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New CDC opioid guidelines may be too little, too late for some chronic pain patients
By Sam Whitehead and Andy Miller Kaiser Health News Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors ...
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Surprise billing law loophole: When ‘out of network’ doesn’t quite mean that
By Harris Meyer Kaiser Health News It was the first day of her family’s vacation in the San Juan ...