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The North Carolina State Health Plan board of trustees will consider dropping coverage of GLP-1 medications like Wegovy and Saxenda. The plan currently covers more than 24,000 people with a prescription for weight loss.

A North Carolina hospital network is referring transgender psychiatric patients to treatment facilities that do not align with their gender identities. Though UNC Hospitals' policy discourages the practice, administrators say a massive bed shortage is forcing them to make tough decisions.

A new inpatient psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents in Butner will soon begin accepting patients. It aims to provide better care and help alleviate backlogs in emergency departments around the state.

UNC Health has notified health insurer UnitedHeathcare that it wants to renegotiate their contract. If both sides don't reach a deal by April 1, it could leave some 200,000 people with UnitedHealthcare insurance out of network for much – though not all – of the UNC Health system.

For a little more than a decade, UNC Health Care has provided care at WakeBrook, the mental health hospital in east Raleigh. Wake County owns the facility, but UNC has been the care provider. Earlier this year, UNC Health announced it will transition away from WakeBrook, a move advocates say will leave a hole in care for some of the most vulnerable patient populations in the area.

By many metrics, the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. But the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is still circulating, and growing evidence suggests that multiple exposures to the virus, even when initial infections are mild, increases the likelihood of developing long COVID symptoms.

A couple of bills under consideration at the General Assembly this year could dramatically loosen regulations for two of North Carolina's largest health care institutions.

March marked the celebration of Women’s History and National Athletic Trainers month so, why not celebrate the women who do both?

Health care systems including Novant now charge a fee for some doctor-physician message exchanges.

Serious flu and RSV cases have declined from a recent spike, but cases of COVID-19 are again on the rise and that continues to impact many people in North Carolina’s Triangle.