A study led by researchers at East Carolina University and New York University showed that adults with diabetes are less likely to visit the dentist than people with prediabetes or...
Ernestine Wilkins couldn’t recall having ever won anything — until Brody School of Medicine student Shahzeb Khan chose to honor her for the impact she had on his path as...
Graduate student Gabriel Beattie-Sergio has earned ECU’s first-ever Schweitzer Fellowship in public health, to create and sustain a project aimed at determining and eliminating different factors that contribute to childhood...
A surgical oncologist at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine was recently awarded a grant aimed at improving the care provided to breast cancer patients across the region. Dr. Jan Wong...
In a nationwide contest searching for the “best innovations in science and medicine” – out of a field of more than 64 prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale and MIT...
In 2013, 80 percent of the nation’s medical schools applied for grant funding through the American Medical Association’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative. East Carolina University’s Brody School of...
East Carolina University (ECU) has named a new vice dean of operations for the Brody School of Medicine. Dr. Peter Schmidt will begin serving as Brody’s second in command on...
East Carolina University’s TEDI BEAR Child Advocacy Center was recently awarded a landmark $1.2 million grant to further its efforts in aiding adolescent victims of abuse. The grant comes from...
Annie Andrews’s doctor said she needed to lose weight, but that wasn’t a simple request for the Parmele resident. “Some of the ingredients I needed (for healthier recipes), I couldn’t...
The American Civil War occurred during a time when medicine was just beginning to make great strides. Contemporary doctors did not fully understand the origin of disease, the importance of hygiene,...