Opinion

NC ruling says non-biological parent not required to support child from IVF

A March 19 decision, written by North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge Donna Stroud and joined by Judge Julie Flood, overturned a lower court’s decision that a non-biological parent of a child created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) needed to pay child support. The decision comes as revolutionary new fertility treatments and changing norms on...

David Larson
News

Lack of CON public hearing amounted to ‘agency error,’ Appeals Court concludes

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has determined that state regulators should have held a public hearing before awarding a disputed certificate of need in 2022 for a new hospital emergency department in Buncombe County. Yet Tuesday's unanimous unpublished decision from the state’s second-highest court stopped short of ruling that the lack of a public hearing would force the state to drop the CON.

CJ Staff
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NC Labor Department rejects petitions asking for new mask mandates

North Carolina Commissioner of Labor Josh Dobson has rejected two petitions filed by left-leaning groups to reinstitute mask mandates and other distancing requirements for North Carolina businesses. The groups filed petitions asking the department to implement a string of measures that would “prevent the spread of airborne infectious diseases” in the workplace during any declared public health...

Brianna Kraemer
News

Appeals Court rules fired white Novant Health executive can collect back pay

A white male executive fired from Novant Health in North Carolina in a diversity-related corporate shakeup in 2018 can collect back pay, based on a ruling Tuesday from a federal Appeals Court. But David Duvall cannot collect punitive damages. A jury initially awarded him $10 million.

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CON court filing criticizes NC health regulators, Duke

A medical imaging company has filed paperwork in North Carolina’s highest court criticizing state regulators and Duke Health for their legal strategy in a certificate-of-need dispute. Duke and the state Department of Health and Human Services challenge the state Court of Appeals’ September 2023 decision to affirm a CON ruling favoring Pinnacle Health Services. Pinnacle needed the CON to operate a magnetic resonance imaging scanner in Wake Forest.

CJ Staff
Opinion

Will Congress raise NC’s prescription drug costs?

As a concerned North Carolinian, consumer of healthcare, and an accomplished healthcare executive, I know how important it is for Sens. Ted Budd and Thom Tillis to stand up to the pharmaceutical giants keeping drug prices in North Carolina so high. Even though North Carolina already ranks 37th out of 50 states on healthcare affordability burdens — a problem...

Tim Bevelacqua
News

Appeals Court rules against mother who sued Guilford schools over son’s forced vaccination

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled against a mother who sued the Guilford County school board and Old North State Medical Society over her teenaged son’s forced COVID-19 vaccination in 2021. Appellate judges agreed that a federal law protected both defendants from legal liability.

CJ Staff
Opinion

For young men falling behind, embracing discomfort can help

When I tell my friends and colleagues that I’ve started taking ice baths each day, I usually get the same quizzical look. And I can understand why. Why I would willfully submerge myself in sub-40 degree-Fahrenheit water for six minutes is a real headscratcher. Our auto response as human beings is to seek comfort and...

David N. Bass
Opinion

Duke Health abandons merit for DEI when picking surgeons

Going viral in the context of a hospital is almost never a good thing. And this week Duke Health and its medical school went viral in a way that certainly made a few administrators sick to their stomachs, as the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro revealed disturbing DEI-related policies at the North Carolina health provider. One...

David Larson
News

DEI in NC medical schools and hospitals spark concerns over patient safety

Reports this week of a fourth-year medical student at Wake Forest University School of Medicine’s impending graduation drew questions not only about why she was being allowed to graduate but also about how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is affecting those going into the medical field and the patients they will ultimately serve. 

Theresa Opeka