PROTECTING FARMERS
While health care systems around the world were frantically searching for personal protective equipment (PPE) for front-line hospital workers during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, the North Carolina...
Rob Spahr Archives
VIRTUAL BUS TOUR
Dr. Tom Irons, professor of pediatrics and associate vice chancellor for regional health services at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine, has provided medical students and residents a priceless oral history...
VETERAN TO SCHOLAR
After a 17-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps that took him to 43 different countries and eight deployments – including three combat tours and two dangerous peacekeeping missions –...
SCHOOL RISKS
As children across North Carolina and nation prepare to return to school, the parents of children with underlying health conditions – such as cancer, blood disorders and asthma – are...
STAYING SAFE
In the coming days, thousands of East Carolina University students will officially return to campus and in-person instruction for the first time since COVID-19 caused the university to shift to...
COVID-19 ANTIBODY TREATMENT
Physicians from East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine and Vidant Health are performing a clinical procedure that uses antibodies from people who have recovered from COVID-19 to treat patients...
SUPER SPONGE
Dr. John Cavanagh was sitting in a collaborator’s office at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration location in Charleston, S.C., in 2002 when a picture came onto a computer screen...
EXPANDING VIRTUAL VISITS
In times of crisis, the East Carolina University community does not simply wait for the storm to subside. It pools its collective talents and resources before charging into the storm...
CORONAVIRUS EXPLAINED
ECU Experts ECU’s Division of Health Sciences has experts available to answer questions related to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other infectious diseases. Infectious diseases: Paul Cook, MD, chief of Brody’s...
RESEARCHING MUSCLE FUNCTION
East Carolina University researchers – in collaboration with researchers from Florida State University and the University of Hannover, Germany – discovered that a small region in the cardiac protein, troponin...