As part of efforts to discourage poor treatment of older patients in hospitals and nursing homes, medical students at UNC-Chapel Hill got a taste this week of how it feels to be old.

Patients at Dorothea Dix Hospital will stay put while the state works to address problems at a new mental hospital in Butner, under a legal agreement signed Thursday.

Reviewers from The Joint Commission, an agency that accredits medical facilities, made a surprise visit Wednesday to Cherry Hospital.

A new analysis estimates the AIDS virus originated earlier than thought, between 1884 and 1924, perhaps in 1908.

A Duke University Medical Center researcher was awarded a National Medal of Science in Washington, D.C., on Monday for his contributions to the biological sciences.

The documentary "Under Our Skin" tells the chilling tale of those who say they were denied treatments for Lyme disease.

Walt Kline no longer even remembers that he has Alzheimer's disease. It slowly steals his memory and understanding as his wife struggles to adapt.

Dozens of Triangle sixth-graders are being barred from school because they failed to get new state-mandated booster shots.

'It's not a healthy and safe place,' health director tells evacuees as they return 10 days after Ike.

North Carolina stands to lose billions of dollars from declines in coastal real estate values, tourism, crops and clean water if climate change is not stemmed, a new economic report suggests.

Two studies provide further evidence of the toll that medical costs are increasingly placing on working families, even for those who have health insurance.

The Democratic and Republican candidates for governor are rolling out emotional tales and images to jab each other over embryonic stem cell research.