Atrium Health plans to take control of WakeMed in a deal that could bring at least $2 billion in new investment to Wake County, documents filed with Wake County indicate. It also lets Atrium grow its ...

Atrium Health, part of Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, said a data security incident involving EHR vendor Oracle Health may have exposed patient information tied to legacy systems used before ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated on May 8, 2026, with information from the N.C. Attorney General’s office. Atrium Health has begun notifying several thousand patients in the Charlotte region ...

The Wake County Board of Commissioners plans to vote Monday to alter WakeMed's articles of incorporation and a land deal between the county and hospital system to pave the way for a merger with ...

A vote on a plan for Atrium Health to take control of WakeMed was postponed, state officials say. The vote had been scheduled for Monday. According to State Treasurer Brad Briner, the Wake County ...

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health and Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals announced on May 1 plans to combine into a single health system, which the organizations said involves a $2 ...

Platypnea–orthodeoxia syndrome is diagnosed when a patient endorses positional dyspnea and there is evidence of arterial ...

A $2 billion investment in Wake County is part of proposed merger between WakeMed and Atrium Health that will create 3,300 new health care jobs, and reshape the state’s healthcare landscape, the ...

A new cardiac magnetic resonance imaging-based measurement may improve how physicians assess a common heart valve condition, ...

Guest Editors: Claire Xiong, Boise State University Minhua Shao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Janelle Wharry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Defects can fundamentally alter ...

As the central part of the circulatory system, the heart is responsible for pumping blood, supplying oxygen and nutrients, and removing metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide from all the tissues in ...

The heart has four chambers that contract and relax in a specific rhythm to oxygenate blood and pump it throughout the body. The heart’s electrical system coordinates muscle contractions to maintain a ...