RURAL PATIENT CARE
ECU Health serves a vast rural region made up of 29 counties and is home to more than 1.4 million people. Like many rural regions, people across eastern North Carolina...
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INTERNATIONAL GROWTH
To help kick off International Education Week, East Carolina University recognized faculty, staff and students for their outstanding work in pursuing international opportunities during its International Awards Ceremony. “As you...
INVESTING IN STUDENTS
East Carolina University’s Board of Trustees on Friday approved the site of a new medical education building on the health sciences campus. Trustees also approved an increase in tuition for...
ECU, ECU Health provide school children glimpse of possible health care careers
Seventy-five middle and high school students from communities in 15 eastern North Carolina counties spent their Saturday getting a first-hand understanding of what careers are available in the health care...
ECU research study aims to unravel secrets of human gene expression
A pair of researchers at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine have received $280,000 in funding from Janssen Pharmaceuticals to study the way that genes are expressed in humans,...
BRODY SCHOLARS
Four students at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine have been awarded the university’s most prestigious medical scholarship. David Murray, Valentine Okafor, Arvind Mallikarjunan and Vaishnavi Siripurapu — all...
Albernaz Lecture speakers encourage medical students to embrace storytelling
The noon-time crowd that filed into the East Carolina Heart Institute Oct. 24 was fairly typical, headed to a catered luncheon to listen to a speaker talk about something related...
BIOENERGETICS TO BEDSIDE
A researcher in the Brody School of Medicine has joined forces with a Brody/ECU Health surgical oncologist on a two-year, $200,000 Department of Defense Melanoma Research Program funded project that...
LET’S GET PHYSICAL
A student in the Brody School of Medicine and a pediatric resident at ECU Health have published their research on physical activity in adolescents attending rural schools. Their findings suggest...
Sickle cell disease conference brings patients, providers together to learn, advocate
The inaugural Tate Holbrook Annual Sickle Cell Disease Update brought patients, providers and experts together Sept. 30 at the East Carolina Heart Institute to share information on history, treatments, impact...