Health & Safety

Nationwide IV fluid shortage changing how hospitals manage patient hydration

8:00am November 19, 2024

Many U.S. hospitals are conserving critical intravenous fluids to cope with a supply shortage caused by Hurricane Helene. They're changing protocols for administering drugs and hydration through IVs.

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Development of Elon Musk's rocket to Mars will likely take off under Trump

7:03am November 19, 2024

Regulators have slowed the pace of Starship launches over environmental concerns, but that may be about to change.

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S.C. authorities still searching for 6 of 43 monkeys that escaped research facility

4:27am November 19, 2024

Some of the 43 monkeys that escaped from a research facility in South Carolina are still on the loose. Animal rights activists say the company that breeds them needs to be investigated.

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Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including ban on pills to end pregnancy

12:24am November 19, 2024

The decision marks another victory for abortion rights advocates after voters in seven states passed measures in support of access.

An exterior shot of the new Novant Health Urology and Bariatric clinics. Photo courtesy of Novant Health

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Novant Health opens specialty clinics in Rural Hall

3:31pm November 18, 2024

by Santiago Ochoa

Officials within the health system say the new developments will increase access to care in rural Forsyth County.

8 kitchen hacks from 'Baking Show' judge Prue Leith: No points docked for using 'em!

2:16pm November 18, 2024

In her new cookbook, "Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom," chef and TV host Prue Leith reveals clever cooking tricks and shortcuts from her 65-year culinary career.

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A flu vaccine is displayed at a pharmacy in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. MARY CONLON/AP

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Winston-Salem's A Blessing Connection Center will host a vaccine clinic

1:50pm November 18, 2024

by Santiago Ochoa

A Winston-Salem nonprofit will offer free COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured individuals.

An electron microscopic image of mpox virus particles. The mpox emergency of last summer is over. Was it a passing threat? Or is there reason to believe another global outbreak could happen.

A more severe strain of mpox has been detected in the U.S. for the first time

5:08am November 18, 2024

The patient was traveling from East Africa, where the mpox disease is endemic. The CDC says the strain does not present a high risk to the general population.

Countries agreed to try to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Is that still possible?

5:00am November 18, 2024

In the 2015 Paris Agreement, most countries agreed to try hard to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Delay and inaction mean that goal is becoming harder to achieve by the day.

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'You're doing such a good job': A stranger tells a mom just what she needs to hear

5:00am November 18, 2024

Emma Carlson Berne was at a restaurant, feeling overwhelmed with her three young children. Then a stranger came over with words she's never forgotten: "What a beautiful family."