News Archives

Jan 24, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

Heart teams vital for patient care success

One of the nation's leading heart surgeons says cardiologists and surgeons should work together as teams to provide the best options and care for patients with cardiovascular disease – an...

Jan 23, 2014
  • Kathy Muse

FULFILLING A NEED

At an hour when many children her age are sitting down to complete their homework, seven-year-old Mckinsey Burt tosses her book bag aside and sprints down a basketball court at...

Jan 22, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

ECU sonographer receives national award

Diana McCormick Strickland, a sonographer at East Carolina University, has received the 2014 Distinguished Sonographer Award from the American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine. She is a registered diagnostic cardiac sonographer...

Jan 22, 2014
  • Jamitress Bowden

GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE

Work crews have begun taking apart Belk Residence Hall brick by brick to make way for two buildings that will become a new entrance to East Carolina University’s main campus....

Jan 17, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

Cookbook takes aim at inflammation

A pair of East Carolina University professors have published a cookbook with recipes that aim to curb inflammation and its related health complications. Dr. Kimberly Myers, a registered dietitian nutritionist...

Jan 17, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

A WELLNESS COOKBOOK

A pair of East Carolina University professors have published a cookbook with recipes that aim to curb inflammation and its related health complications. Dr. Kimberly Myers, a registered dietitian nutritionist...

Jan 16, 2014
  • Crystal Baity

MAKING A RECOVERY

East Carolina University and Vidant Medical Center have teamed up to help pregnant women and new mothers with a history of substance abuse across eastern North Carolina. The Pregnancy and...

Jan 16, 2014
  • Crystal Baity

ECU, Vidant provide care for pregnant women, new moms with history of drug use

East Carolina University and Vidant Medical Center have teamed up to help pregnant women and new mothers with a history of substance abuse across eastern North Carolina. The Pregnancy and...

Jan 15, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

ECHI recognized for new patient-care technology

Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr. and cardiovascular physicians and staff accepted a recognition Tuesday for being part of the first heart center in the Carolinas and Tennessee to install and...

Jan 15, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr. and cardiovascular physicians and staff accepted recognition Jan. 14 for being part of the first heart center in the Carolinas and Tennessee to install and...