If you’re wearing a fancy pedometer like a Fitbit or a Jawbone, you may be swept up in a little competition for steps with your friends and co-workers. Last week, the Orange County Health Department took step competitions to a...
Read MoreOrange County’s Family Success Alliance needs volunteers this weekend to go door-to-door in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
Read MoreThe odorless, colorless gas radon is the second leading cause of deadly lung cancer in the U.S. – and too often, it’s found in our homes.
Read MoreDespite an air of affluence, a growing number of families in Orange County are struggling to get by.
Read MoreHealth Department officials say Orange County’s teen pregnancy rate has dropped by 35 percent in the past year, making it the lowest in the state.
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Carrboro police will now carry kits to help prevent drug overdose deaths.
Read MoreThe number of people living in poverty grew more in North Carolina than anywhere else in the nation.
Read MoreThe National Association of Counties (NACo) has awarded the Health Department and Board of Health with a 2014 Achievement Award.
Read MoreDespite the fact that it has been clear for a long time that chikungunya would eventually reach the U.S., we have not been preparing in a meaningful way. In particular, we have not created a vaccine nor have we been trying very hard to do so. A vaccine for chikungunya would come from either government labs or the pharmaceutical industry. Government health research has been hampered for the last several decades due to funding cuts, and developing new vaccines is not viewed as sufficiently profitable by the shareholder-value driven pharmaceutical industry. As a result, we are about to be caught with our pants down.
Read MoreHand sanitizers reduce the number of microbes on your hand, whereas washing with soap and water actually carries them away.
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