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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...