ECU News Services Archives

Mar 28, 2003
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

ECU alumni, student shine in NCAFP

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, with a mission to promote family care in general and family medicine in particular, has hit the proverbial jackpot this year....

Mar 28, 2003
  • Doug Boyd

AAMC president urges professionalism

In the face of mounting commercial and other pressures, physicians need to be mindful of a sense of professionalism, according to the president of the Association of American Medical Colleges....

Mar 20, 2003
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Students, faculty celebrate another successful Match Day

March 20 was a day of celebration at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University: the annual rite-of-passage for medical students known as Match Day. The future physicians...

Mar 03, 2003
  • ECU News Services

One of ECU’s own discusses path to scientific success

One of the country's premier diabetes and obesity researchers had a philosophical message for students during the keynote speech for the 11th annual East Carolina University Graduate Student Research Day...

Feb 20, 2003
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Kosovo children doing well after heart surgery

Two days after having life-saving heart surgery at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, 6-year-old Aurela Berisha sat in a wheelchair in her pajamas and pink slipper socks smiling during a press...

Feb 11, 2003
  • Jane Martin

Researchers study breast cancer drug resistance with $1.5 million grant

The National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute have awarded two East Carolina University scientists a $1.5 million, five-year grant to identify signal transduction pathways in cells that...

Feb 05, 2003
  • ECU News Services

Diagnostic Dilemma Clinic may help uncover the causes of complicated pediatric disorders

The child's colic confounded diagnosis. Seemingly without cause, the baby boy was irritable, angry and teary, and his symptoms had persisted far longer than the three or four months considered...

Jan 30, 2003
  • ECU News Services

ECU to offer master of public health degree this fall

East Carolina University is gearing up to begin offering the master of public health degree this fall in hopes of providing a missing piece to the puzzle of improving rural...

Jan 15, 2003
  • Doug Boyd

Basnight to lead PCMH medical staff in 2003

With an interest in athletics and a background in exercise, Dr. Lorraine Basnight sees similarities in medicine and sports and how lessons learned in competition can aid health care professionals....

Jan 13, 2003
  • ECU News Services

Orientation scheduled for graduate social work program in Rocky Mount

East Carolina University will hold an orientation program on Feb. 26 for individuals interested in a new off-campus master of social work program that will be offered in Rocky Mount....