Doug Boyd Archives

Nov 22, 2004
  • Doug Boyd

Conference to cover community-based care of mentally ill

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Nov. 22, 2004)   —   Carmen Hooker Odom, secretary of health and human services, will deliver the keynote address to local and state health care leaders who...

Aug 05, 2004
  • Doug Boyd

Governor signs bill to fund ECU cardiovascular center

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Aug. 5, 2004)   —   Gov. Mike Easley today signed legislation that will fund a $60 million cardiovascular research center at East Carolina University.  As Easley used...

Jul 20, 2004
  • Doug Boyd

Beverly Healthcare donates to Brody School of Medicine

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (July 20, 2004)   —   Beverly Healthcare has donated $98,500 to the Department of Family Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University to...

Jul 06, 2004
  • Doug Boyd

Grants to help fund health programs

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (July 6, 2004)   —   East Carolina University programs such as a diabetes fellowship for physicians and a pediatric healthy weight program were among local projects that...

Apr 13, 2004
  • Doug Boyd

Kolasa named to committee on childhood obesity

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Apr. 13, 2004)   —   Dr. Kathryn Kolasa, a registered dietitian and professor of family medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has...

Apr 07, 2004
  • Doug Boyd

ECU physician’s book calls inflammation a cause of disease

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Apr. 7, 2004)   —   The food we eat, the beverages we drink, the air we breathe, our pre-existing aches and pains and more all contribute to...

Mar 26, 2004
  • Doug Boyd

Study to determine if exercise lowers heart failure death

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Mar. 26, 2004)   —   Physicians at the Cardiovascular Center of University Health Systems of East Carolina are studying whether a tailored exercise program can help people with...

Feb 06, 2004
  • Doug Boyd

Kerkering and Salgado take on infection, disease

GREENVILE, NC   (Feb. 6, 2004)   —   One of the worst flu seasons in recent memory, a worldwide SARS scare, fears of mosquitoes and West Nile Virus, and the...

Dec 18, 2003
  • Doug Boyd

Physician donates salary to promote palliative care

The patient, a man in his 70s, was dying. All the treatments that seemed reasonable to try had been attempted, and they hadn’t worked. Death was inevitable. The doctors knew...

Dec 15, 2003
  • Doug Boyd

Cardiovascular Center named one of nation’s 100 best

For the second year in a row, the Cardiovascular Center of University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina has been named among the nation's top 100 centers for the treatment of...