One thread that East Carolina University health sciences researchers keep pulling at to unravel the heavy burden of chronic disease in eastern North Carolina is disconnectedness. Many of the people...
STATISTICS Name: Abby Coderre College: College of Nursing Major: Nursing Age: 22 Classification/Year: Senior Hometown: Wilmington, North Carolina Hobbies/interests: Going to Pure Barre to workout, watching movies, and painting Clubs...
The bleeding mannequins, the cries of ‘help me, help me,’ and the eyeball drooping from an actor’s face? Not real. But the learning was. On a beatific fall day, more...
Beginning in 2010, organizations across the United States have reserved the third Thursday in November to celebrate National Rural Health Day and highlight unique challenges residents of rural communities face...
Doctors, nurses, therapists — none can do their clinical jobs without facts: proof, by way of blood tests, X-rays and hands-on observations in order to determine a clear path forward...
Dr. Leigh Atherton, an associate professor in East Carolina University’s College of Allied Health Sciences, has a simple-sounding proposition — engage individuals who are being tested for HIV to gauge...
The East Carolina University College of Allied Health Sciences is famous for its selectiveness — last year about 600 potential students applied for just 36 spots in the school’s physician’s...
Seventy-five middle and high school students from communities in 15 eastern North Carolina counties spent their Saturday getting a first-hand understanding of what careers are available in the health care...
A pair of researchers at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine have received $280,000 in funding from Janssen Pharmaceuticals to study the way that genes are expressed in humans,...
The noon-time crowd that filed into the East Carolina Heart Institute Oct. 24 was fairly typical, headed to a catered luncheon to listen to a speaker talk about something related...