The head of the Social Security Administration testified before Congress on Wednesday that customer service has drastically improved during the last year, though he declined to offer ways to address the program’s dire financial situation.

An NC Senate bill with hospital healthcare staff whistleblower protections advanced Thursday, but a provision requiring state oversight of hospital mergers was removed.

Legislation to prohibit foreign companies from buying land near military bases in North Carolina took another step forward Tuesday in the House Homeland Security committee.

North Carolina Senate Democratic leaders gathered Thursday to address how the legislature’s failure to pass a budget has affected state employees.

For North Carolina clinicians and researchers who worked through the 2014 Ebola epidemic, today’s outbreak raises familiar concerns but in a markedly different global health landscape.

The North Carolina Department of Commerce estimates that data centers could soon cost the state $450 million a year under current tax exemptions.

The “Real Tickets, Real Fans Act” would tighten regulations on second- and third-party sellers, targeting price gouging and fraudulent concert tickets. 

Doctors and parents of formerly sick children in NC promote insurance coverage for biomarker testing as part of medical treatment.

Many OB-GYNs breathed a sigh of relief Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone can continue until after the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling in the federal lawsuit Louisiana v. Food and Drug Administration.

The House Finance Committee gave its approval to a bill to close an affordable property tax loophole for affordable housing.