Karen Garloch

Four years ago Laura Anne Middlesteadt tried to kill herself.

I used to be a grouch in December.

I used to be a grouch in December.

Hundreds of low-income, uninsured people who've been getting free prescription drugs from N.C. MedAssist are wondering where they'll get their next supplies of life-saving medicines.

More than a year ago, Shannon and Kip Brooks welcomed their daughter, Skylar, who lived for only 99 minutes.

Charlotte lawyer Josephine Hicks was a caregiver for four years, from the time her partner Ann Brewster Jones was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer until she died Feb. 28, 2010.

I spent most of a recent weekend at the hospital with a friend.

In 1986, Dr. Francis Robicsek led the team of surgeons who performed the first heart transplant in Charlotte.

Since January, Laurie Sanders has spent many days traveling from Charlotte to Raleigh.

When Shannon Morgan was diagnosed with a recurrence of breast cancer, spread to her abdomen, her doctor said she had only a year or two to live.