Grant of $800,000 to help fund community health center
GREENVILLE, N.C. — An $800,000 federal grant will help fund operating costs for a local community health center set to open in December. The James D. Bernstein Community...
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Plan sets goals to reduce obesity in county, state
GREENVILLE, N.C. — State and local agencies, schools, businesses, health care professionals and others will have to work together to help turn the tide of obesity, according to...
Local ‘Champions of Change in Medicine’ recognized
GREENVILLE, N.C. — An East Carolina University physician who's led efforts to deliver health care to underserved populations and a program to help children manage their asthma have...
PCMH named a top endocrinology hospital by U.S. News & World Report
GREENVILLE — Pitt County Memorial Hospital, the teaching hospital of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has been named among the nation's top 50 centers for...
TEDI BEAR Center receives grant topping $700,000
GREENVILLE, N.C. — The TEDI BEAR Children's Advocacy Center in Greenville has received a three-year grant totaling $720,000 from the Duke Endowment. The Charlotte-based endowment announced its most recent...
ECU camps allow sick children to just be kids
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Each year, children with cancer, hemophilia and sickle cell disease are invited to special camps designed to accommodate their medical needs while still allowing them to...
Silent, stunning Chernobyl stirs emotions for ECU group
KIEV, UKRAINE — A group from East Carolina University traveled today to the site of the world's worst nuclear meltdown and the deserted towns nearby and came away with...
Chernobyl tragedy, lessons remembered in Ukraine
KIEV, UKRAINE — Twenty years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, citizens here in the capital of Ukraine call the event a "catastrophe" but add that nuclear power is...
Students meet with international nuclear experts
VIENNA, AUSTRIA — Nuclear power is on the upswing, with anywhere from 16 to 140 new power plants possible worldwide within the next two decades, and a group of...
ECU taps new chairman of emergency medicine
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Dr. Theodore Delbridge has joined the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University as professor and chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine. Delbridge, 44,...