By MARTHA QUILLIN, Raleigh News and Observer
Non-profits help break cycle of emergency room visits
With her diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol under control, Gail Johnson expects to be around to see her grandchildren grow up. But she figures she'll die long before she's able to pay off her hospital bills.
"I don't even know how much I owe (the hospital). That's how bad it is," she says, guessing it's well over $20,000.
Hope grows for reviving American chestnut tree in Tenn., N.C., Va.
In stands of tiny trees in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia blooms the hope of restoring a mighty giant, as scientists try to bring back the American chestnut from near extinction.
No answers on possible harm from tainted Camp Lejeune water
It may be impossible to know whether contaminants in drinking water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina through the mid-1980s harmed the health of people who lived and worked on the Marine base, or harmed children born to mothers who did, according to a new report by the National Research Council.
Hospital returns 22 rescued turtles to ocean
With the pageantry of a high school prom, nearly two dozen sea turtles were returned to their Atlantic Ocean home this week.
