Experts discuss problems, solutions to health care system
The U.S. health care system needs to rein in costs, improve quality and increase access for people without health insurance, but the path toward those goals is as cloudy as...
Doug Boyd Archives
Through the mouth? New surgeries promise faster recovery, fewer scars
When Cheryl Taylor needed a common follow-up procedure to her gastric-bypass surgery, she learned about a new procedure that would not involve cutting through her skin. Instead, surgeons would operate...
Projects receive Brody Brothers research grants
Research projects led by faculty at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, including one that exposes medical students to a summer of investigation, have received grants totaling...
ECU breaks ground for new Family Medicine Center
A new East Carolina University Family Medicine Center will triple the space available to see patients and train the next generation of family doctors to serve North Carolina. That was...
Raab brings cancer care home to ECU
Her parents pioneered advanced cancer care in eastern North Carolina, and now Dr. Rachel Raab has come home to continue the tradition. Raab is one of the newest faculty members...
Golden Living Center donates to Brody School of Medicine
Golden Living Center has donated $110,801 to the Department of Family Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University to support the department's nursing home teaching project....
Research could lead to new blood pressure treatment
Funded by a $1.6 million grant, an East Carolina University researcher is studying a protein that might hold a key to reducing high blood pressure and improving kidney function in...
Grants to aid Hobgood Clinic, HIV testing in China
Drs. Heng Hong and Karlene Hewan-Lowe of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have received grants to help test residents of Hobgood for diabetes and women in...
Brody welcomes Class of 2012
Seventy-six new medical students capped their first week at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University today as they received their symbolic white coats. This class is the...
Annual white coat ceremony scheduled for Friday
The Class of 2012 of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University will be welcomed officially at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, during the annual white coat ceremony....