BREATHING EASY
A recent study by a team of East Carolina University researchers confirmed that while N95 respirator masks are more expensive and a bit less comfortable, they offer much greater protection...
Medical Archives
RESEARCH CAREER AWARD
An East Carolina University researcher has earned a National Science Foundation Career Award for $1.2 million over five years to study synapse formation in brain development, which is vital to...
Forum celebrates medical and dental student research, distinction track projects
East Carolina University medical and dental students in the Summer Scholars Research and distinction track programs showcased their scholarly work on Aug. 1 during the 25th Annual Medical Student Scholarship...
TREATING SARCOIDOSIS
An East Carolina University clinic is gaining international recognition for its efforts to tackle a bedeviling systemic inflammatory disease that affects an unusually high number of people in eastern North...
ECU leads blood pressure clinical trial using home monitoring, team approach
Researchers at East Carolina University will lead a five-year randomized clinical trial aimed at improving blood pressure control in rural and urban patients using targeted home-based monitoring and telehealth and...
Brody School of Medicine researchers advancing brain health knowledge
Two researchers at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine have been selected as the 2022 recipients of the Wooten Family Initiative for Brain Health Research Grant. Dr. Alessandro Didonna,...
COVID-PARKINSON’S LINK
A team of scientists, led by researchers from East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, have identified another problem stemming from COVID-19 infections — the potential for greater risk of...
2022 WHITE COAT CEREMONY
Excitement resonated from East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus on Friday morning as the Brody School of Medicine officially welcomed 86 new medical students — all North Carolina residents —...
Lumbee Tribe STEM students visit ECU
High school students from North Carolina’s largest state-recognized Indian tribe — and who have particular interest in science, technology, engineering and math fields — visited East Carolina University’s Health Sciences...
Brody School of Medicine dean named to AAMC’s Board of Directors
Dr. Michael Waldrum, dean of East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine and chief executive officer of ECU Health, has been named to the board of directors of the Association...