Medical Archives

Jul 20, 2020
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU collaborators, students study pathogen that affects animals, humans

East Carolina University faculty members are collaborating on research that could eventually lead to development of a drug or vaccine to fight bacteria that can infect farm animals and people....

Jul 16, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU-led COVID-19 survey now open to Pitt County participants

Phase One of the Pitt County Community Prevention and COVID-19 Testing Study, or Pitt County ComPACT Study, is now under way, and project leaders are seeking participants in Pitt County....

Jul 14, 2020
  • Ken Buday

VIRTUAL SIMULATION

As East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine prepares future medical professionals, it relies on the Office of Clinical Simulation to provide lifelike patient scenarios for students. However, with coronavirus...

Jul 02, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

Standardized patients continue helping ECU health sciences students learn despite COVID

For 15 years, Ann Flake has helped students across the East Carolina University Division of Health Sciences practice their clinical skills—and the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t changed that. Flake serves as...

Jul 01, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

POST-PANDEMIC CARE

Mental health care will become more critical during the COVID-19 pandemic and after it subsides, says one East Carolina University psychiatrist. Through the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program (NC-STeP) based...

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Jun 29, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Holly Wei

Dr. Holly Wei is a magician. And as an associate professor in East Carolina University’s College of Nursing, she is teaching her students to become magicians themselves. “When I was...

Jun 24, 2020
  • Rich Klindworth

Talk Like a Pirate: As country reopens, COVID-19 cases rise

The majority of the United States has “reopened” following the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown. However, since Memorial Day weekend, COVID-19 cases have been on the rise. “The slope of the curve...

Jun 22, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

Study examines how LGBT communities view health risks

While a majority of LGBT members rate HIV and AIDS as the most serious health issues today, researchers at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

Jun 19, 2020
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

ECU medical students resume clinical rotations for the first time since COVID-19

Medical students at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine recently returned to clinical rotations for the first time since rotations were halted because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Third-and-fourth year...

Jun 19, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

GRANTING SMILES

The East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine has received a $3.1 million grant to enhance resident training in the care of patients with special needs in eastern North Carolina...