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,...
Medical Archives
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BRODY ALUMNA RETURNS TO ECU
Dr. Lisa Callahan’s life has not played out according to plan. But that’s only because she is not a fan of planning. Instead, Callahan – a 1983 East Carolina University...
ECU MAKES MINDGAMES FINALS
A team of East Carolina University psychiatry residents training at Vidant Medical Center was the top qualifier for the finals of a nationwide competition organized by the American Psychiatric Association....
NEW LEASE ON LIFE
“It was a life-changing experience.” That’s how Brandon Hodges describes the kidney transplant he received a couple of months ago at Vidant Medical Center (VMC). Hodges, 42, is a physical...
Clinton's lead surgeon returns to Brody for lecture
The chest surgeon who led the team that once operated on former President Bill Clinton gave a lecture at the East Carolina Heart Institute on April 25. The surgeon, Dr....