CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- There was a sea of purple at UNC's Lineberger Cancer Center. Staff was wearing the hue be on their clothes, gloves or goggles. Doctors donned the color to bring awareness ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Doctors are saying colon cancer is no longer an 'old people's disease'. The age for adults diagnosed is getting younger. New data from the American Cancer Society shows the ...

Dr. Ted Meigs, a biology professor at UNC Asheville, has received a $430,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute.

In the health care industry, there is a common adage: If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. For a combination of legal, medical and billing reasons, doctors spend hours every day in front of ...

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care is changing the name of its various physician networks and bringing them under one umbrella: UNC Physicians Network. UNCPN will include community physicians ...

No one puts Dr. Stuart Gold in a corner. In what’s now a whimsical annual tradition, the so-called Dancing Doctors of UNC Children’s Hospital created a year-end parody video with this year’s number a ...

A new report released this week has put some diabetics in limbo about the medication they need. The FDA recently issued a safety alert for the drug Avandia after an independent research team with the ...

The UNC System's Board of Governors approved Dr. Kristin Baker on May 21, selecting the psychiatrist to fill the seat left by ...

I'm Brian Gordon, tech reporter for The News & Observer, and this is Open Source, a weekly newsletter on business, labor and technology in North Carolina. When COVID-19 cases were surging, Dr. David ...

There aren’t enough nurses and doctors in North Carolina, state leaders say, a problem that’s particularly acute in rural areas. Meanwhile, cuts to Medicaid and other economic factors threaten rural ...