News Archives

Jul 12, 2017
  • ECU News Services
  • Michael Rudd

QUALITY OF LIFE

A life-size, 3D printout of a patient’s ribcage helped ECU doctors perform a less-invasive, life-changing surgery for one Goldsboro man. Franklin Arnold was left with chronic pain after a surgery...

Jul 11, 2017
  • ECU News Services

CANCER CARE

Dr. Emmanuel “Manny” Zervos, a surgical oncologist at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University (ECU), has been appointed as the executive director of Vidant Cancer Care as...

Jul 10, 2017
  • ECU News Services
  • Harley Dartt

GLOBAL ATTRACTION

Classical guitar performers, instructors and students from around the world will converge in the A. J. Fletcher Music Center at East Carolina University in Greenville for the ECU International Summer...

Jul 07, 2017
  • Elizabeth Willy

GENETIC REMEDY

An East Carolina University researcher is making great strides toward helping patients with vascular disease avoid limb loss. Some patients with peripheral artery disease report pain in the legs that...

Jul 07, 2017
  • ECU News Services

HEART HOPE

Patients being treated for advanced heart failure in eastern North Carolina now have access to a new life-saving treatment option, an implantable mechanical pump that restores blood flow throughout the...

Jul 05, 2017
  • Amy Adams Ellis
  • ECU News Services

HEALING HEARTBURN

Surgeons at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University are offering a new outpatient procedure to treat acid reflux disease. In individuals with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, or GERD,...

Jul 05, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

'THINKING THROUGH MAKING'

Twelve East Carolina University students have learned the art of making paddleboards during an intense summer class.  Following a successful canoe building course last summer, the School of Art and...

Jun 29, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

FOSTERING SUCCESS

An East Carolina University researcher is compiling and analyzing data as part of a national project to improve outcomes for children in foster care. Dr. Kevin White, assistant professor in...

Jun 28, 2017
  • Jules Norwood

REPRODUCTIVE RESEARCH

Students in Dr. Christopher Geyer’s lab at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine are working to understand and explain the earliest stages of reproduction thanks to a five-year, $1.45...

Jun 27, 2017
  • ECU News Services

SUCCESS AND EXPERTISE

East Carolina University (ECU) has named a new dean for the Brody School of Medicine and senior associate vice chancellor for medical affairs for the Division of Health Sciences. The...