Vol. 85, Issue 1, 2024

The Persistent Three: Combating Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke in North Carolina

Adverse childhood experiences have a negative impact on people across the lifespan, including poorer health outcomes, including heart disease. There is a need to study the linkages between the two.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can repurpose the widely available electrocardiogram (ECG) for enhanced assessment of cardiac dysfunction.

The Stroke Advisory Council and its partners created the NC Stroke System of Care, an online repository of strategies and resources, to prevent rising rates of stroke in our state.

My new beginning started when we established BELIEVE - Stroke Recovery Foundation in September 2019, two years after my stroke.

By providing free medications to those who are uninsured and who have low income, organizations like NC MedAssist are able alleviate this barrier for thousands of North Carolinians each year.

The North Carolina Medical Journal sat down with Leon Levine Foundation President & CEO Tom Lawrence to learn how the Foundation is addressing health disparities.

Access to neurology services is important for children’s well-being. We sought to evaluate the effects of telehealth on pediatric neurology appointment outcomes for children.

This is the first phase of the Building Resilience And Vital Equity project, whose scope is to understand Indigenous perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors about COVID-19 and implement culturally sensitive interventions.