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Food Brings Older Adults Back To The Table

Many kids grow up spending time after school with other kids in their neighborhood playing pick-up soccer, videogames or capture the flag. » E-Mail This

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'North Carolina Has An Underage Drinking Problem'

Almost twice as many middle and high school students compared to parents think that underage drinking is a serious issue, according to a survey...» E-Mail This

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Connecting Durham's Homeless to Health Care

As a child Jen Robinson had it rough. She grew up in an abusive household and periodically was forced to live in homeless shelters, but those turbulent...» E-Mail This

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North Carolina Doctor In Voluntary Quarantine After Returning From Liberian...

Doctor George Poehlman recently returned from an eight-week aid mission in Liberia. Upon his return, the retired Durham, N.C. family physician put...» E-Mail This

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Flu Related Deaths On The Rise In NC

Thirty people died from the flu last week in North Carolina - about three times more than died the previous week. "And those numbers are going to...» E-Mail This

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Learning To Like Muktuk

Penelope Easton ventured to the Alaskan territory as a young woman in 1948. It would have been an intimidating move for many young women in that era....

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New Online Tool Can Help North Carolinians Save Thousands In Medical Costs

Are you about to have a medical procedure? Have you chosen a provider yet? Before you do, you might consider taking a look at what the procedure will...

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Domestic Violence: 'You Don’t Need To Be In Handcuffs To Realize You Have A...

Public incidents in the NFL in the past year sparked a national conversation about domestic violence. But millions of Americans are struggling with...

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480,000 People In NC Have Gotten Health Plan Through National Marketplace

Roughly 480,000 people in North Carolina have signed up or been automatically re-enrolled for Obamacare plans by the end of January using the healthcare...

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What Makes Us Smile?

Sure, it's more or less a given that we smile when we're happy and we smile when our picture is taken. But do we also smile automatically throughout the...

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Nursing Injuries In Asheville

A little-known epidemic has swept through hospitals across the country: thousands of nursing staff suffer debilitating back and arm injuries every year...

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The Bridges Between Economic Mobility And Minority Health

Health outcomes are tied to income and education, according to many studies, but little work has been done to examine the connections between long-term...

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Gauging The Threat Of Nuclear War

It has been nearly 50 years since the U.S. and the Soviet Union first sat down to talk about limiting their arsenals of nuclear weapons. Today, Russia...

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A New Take On Nature Versus Nurture

There is a common metaphor in the scientific community that uses flowers to describe children’s sensitivity to their environments. A child like a...

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Let's Talk About Death And Dying

How do we die? For some death comes suddenly, and there is no time for preparation, but for others death slowly creeps up on us. Though it is...

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