ACADESINE STUDY
A drug designed to shield the heart from injury during bypass surgery failed to reduce deaths, strokes and other serious events among patients at high risk of complications, according to...
Doug Boyd Archives
LIFE-SAVING THERAPY
Doctors in eastern North Carolina are perfecting a new method for replacing worn out heart valves that promises less pain and faster recovery times. Surgeons and cardiologists at the...
NIH-FUNDED RESEARCH
Research by an East Carolina University scientist could lead to a better understanding of how testicular cancer develops as well as give insight into how stem cells could be used...
Early cell development could hold key to testicular cancer
GREENVILLE, N.C. (July 17, 2012) — Research by an East Carolina University scientist could lead to a better understanding of how testicular cancer develops as well as give...
OVERCOMING ROADBLOCKS
An East Carolina University scientist has received a patent for a discovery that could make certain vaccines safer for people with weakened immune systems and could make all vaccines of...
Scientist receives patent for poxvirus discovery
GREENVILLE, N.C. (July 12, 2012) — An East Carolina University scientist has received a patent for a discovery that could make certain vaccines safer for people with weakened...
‘FRESH MINDS’
Physicians at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have been showing the medical ropes to three top scholars from a sister state university. Sophie Austin, Pooja Sarin...
Park Scholars explore medicine at ECU
GREENVILLE, N.C. (July 5, 2012) — Physicians at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have been showing the medical ropes to three top scholars from...
SERVICE FIRST
A new way of teaching dental medicine and delivering dental care took a big step Thursday with the opening of the first East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine Community...
Fourth year takes shape for medical student
As his third year in medical school draws to a close, Hunter Mehaffey sees his future coming into focus. A surgery residency is likely, and he's looking at programs around...