Health Sciences Archives

Dr. Kym Gowdy has received a $2.5 million grant to study the effect of pollution on the immune system. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 21, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

OZONE EXPOSURE

Ground-level air pollution can cause a variety of health problems, and East Carolina University’s Dr. Kym Gowdy is taking a closer look at how and why. Her work, for which...

Jun 14, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

CAMP RAINBOW AND CAMP HOPE

Memphis Gautier sometimes can’t do things that most other kids his age take for granted, such as going to summer camp. The 11-year-old Calypso, N.C. resident has severe hemophilia A,...

Dr. Motaleb views the bacteria that cause Lyme disease through a microscope
Jun 08, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

TICK SEASON

Researchers at East Carolina University, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, have declared open season on the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. While rarely fatal, Lyme disease can...

Jun 05, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

NURSING EXCELLENCE

A nurse manager in adult and pediatric health care has been selected by her peers as the 2018 Nurse of the Year at ECU Physicians, the medical practice of the...

Jun 04, 2018
  • ECU News Services

GENEROUS GIFT

ECU and Vidant Health are partnering to create two senior faculty positions in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine. The positions are being funded...

Allison Mills puts headphones on Garrett Lamm as she prepares him for a free hearing screening. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Jun 01, 2018
  • Rich Klindworth
  • Rob Spahr

BETTER HEARING AND SPEECH

The ECU College of Allied Health Sciences’ Speech-Language & Hearing Clinic wanted to do more than simply raise awareness about hearing and speech problems during Better Hearing and Speech Month...

May 30, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU names interim vice chancellor for health sciences

ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton announced today that he has named an interim vice chancellor for the university’s Division of Health Sciences. Dr. Mark Stacy, dean of ECU’s Brody School of...

May 29, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

EXCELLENCE IN RURAL HEALTH

East Carolina University has announced plans to establish a new School of Rural Public Health in August of 2020, after the plans were approved by the UNC System Board of...

May 15, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Eastern AHEC, ECU and Camp Lejeune partner on new military-civilian cardiac conference

More than 250 military and civilian health professionals came together for a new educational conference entitled Premature Cardiac Death in Eastern North Carolina on May 8 at Camp Lejeune. This...

May 14, 2018
  • Bre Lewis

Student: Peter Eischens

Peter Eischens is a second-year doctoral student in the rehabilitation counseling and administration program at East Carolina University. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at St. Cloud State University,...