Medical Archives

Sep 17, 2020
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

NC Agromedicine Institute official earns top agricultural safety award

LaMar Grafft, associate director of the North Carolina Agromedicine Institute, has been awarded the 2020 Maynard Coe Professional Achievement Award from the International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health (ISASH)....

Sep 17, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

E-CIGARETTE EXPOSURE

East Carolina University researchers have been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to measure secondhand and thirdhand exposure to electronic cigarette use inside vehicles as well as conduct an...

Sep 16, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU’s Center for Health Disparities names director

Dr. Keith Keene has been named director of the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine Center for Health Disparities (CHD), effective Aug. 1, 2020. He has served as the...

Sep 11, 2020
  • Natalie Sayewich

7 Questions With Dr. Kim Stokes: How ECU Will Boost Rural Health Care with $1.2M

A new grant award will be put to work placing more medical providers into the rural areas in which they’re needed. The United States Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)...

Sep 10, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

TREATING RARE CANCER

By all accounts a typical teen, Luke Haithcock loved to high-five his friends. The school-hallway equivalent to a handshake, the greeting punctuated Haithcock’s days at South Central High School in...

Sep 03, 2020
  • Natalie Sayewich

FUNDING COVID-19 RESEARCH

East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine will put the CARES Act funding it received from the North Carolina General Assembly toward developing better treatments, advancing vaccine research and minimizing...

Sep 02, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

Researcher studying if new ECU-created pesticide is safer for humans

A researcher in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has received a grant to study the human and environmental safety of NoPest, an ECU-created novel pesticide aimed...

Aug 27, 2020
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

PRESTIGIOUS SCHOLARS

Three medical students at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine have been awarded the university’s most prestigious scholarship. Michael Burt, Miranda Freeman and Heerali Patel – all North Carolina residents –...

Aug 26, 2020
  • Rob Spahr

VIRTUAL BUS TOUR

Dr. Tom Irons, professor of pediatrics and associate vice chancellor for regional health services at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine, has provided medical students and residents a priceless oral history...

Aug 26, 2020
  • Lacey L. Gray

Sociology student publishes cross-collaborative research with pediatric faculty

Sarah Watson, an East Carolina University graduate student in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (THCAS) Department of Sociology, is applying her studies to important cross-collaborative, clinical research....