Grant to support medical education and resource clinic
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has received a two-year, $194,665 grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust to support a clinic that will provide care...
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ECU physician first to use new device to open airway
A 55-year-old New Bern woman with cancer was the first U.S. patient to receive a new device designed to help keep her airway open during a procedure last Thursday in...
ECU dialysis technology earns a top spot in business plan competition
A business plan for a kidney dialysis technology devised at East Carolina University was one of two winners at the 12th annual $10K Business Plan Competition managed by the Entrepreneurship...
Local students to participate in health careers program
Twenty-two rising 10th graders from across eastern North Carolina have been selected to participate in the 12th annual Ventures Into Health Careers Institute at East Carolina University. The two-week program...
Inflammation may increase risk of heart damage among people with asthma
East Carolina University researchers have found a link between asthma-related inflammation and heart and blood vessel illness. The illnesses, such as congestive heart failure, angina and vasculitis, or inflammation of...
ECU medical school makes U.S. News magazine rankings
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University moved up this year among medical schools with family medicine programs, according to the annual listing of the best graduate schools...
Rotondo to head national trauma group
Dr. Michael F. Rotondo, interim chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has been elected president of the Eastern Association for...
Army awards Bronze Star to ECU surgeon
Dr. P.J. Schenarts, an assistant professor of surgery with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University who is currently deployed on active military duty, has received the Bronze...
Dr. William Laupus, former ECU medical dean, dies
Dr. William Laupus, who came to the East Carolina University School of Medicine two years before it admitted its first four-year class of medical students and led the school as...
State program offers seniors financial help with prescriptions
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Dec. 13, 2004) — Pitt County senior citizens will be able to sign up for the state’s prescription drug assistance program Friday, Dec. 17 at five...