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Two East Carolina University researchers have received funding for a project that could lead to better quality of life for people living with chronic pain.
Published: Wednesday, January 21st, 2015 @ 9:32 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Friday, Jan. 2, marks the fifth anniversary of North Carolina's smoke-free restaurants and bars law. The smoke-free law prohibits smoking in enclosed areas of most restaurants and bars, with limited exceptions for private clubs and some cigar bars.
Published: Wednesday, December 31st, 2014 @ 10:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Growing up on a military base, Jessica Ford witnessed the physical and psychological effects of war on her community.
Published: Tuesday, December 16th, 2014 @ 10:39 pm
By: ECU News Services
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An emerging relationship between East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington may yield ocean-bred therapeutics that target human diseases.
Published: Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 @ 12:26 am
By: ECU News Services
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People who exercise following bariatric surgery gain health benefits beyond weight loss, according to researchers at East Carolina University, the University of Pittsburgh and Florida Hospital - Sanford-Burnham Translational Research for Institute and Diabetes Institute.
Published: Sunday, December 7th, 2014 @ 9:59 am
By: ECU News Services
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This Halloween, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) customers were spooked by skyrocketing premiums when opening their 2015 rate notification letters for their non-group health plans. While it turns out that the mailings provided incorrect information for an estimated 38,000...
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University has joined 100 cutting-edge colleges and universities nationwide recognized by the League of American Bicyclists with a Silver Bicycle Friendly University award.
Published: Saturday, November 1st, 2014 @ 5:02 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Most enzymes spend their lives breaking down proteins to benefit their host organisms, so East Carolina University biochemist Lance Bridges has an apt description for one he's investigating that apparently does nothing.
Published: Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 @ 12:08 am
By: ECU News Services
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Drs. David Brown and S. Raza Shaikh have very different scientific skill sets. They might never have met if not for a multi-disciplinary research group based at East Carolina University.
Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 @ 11:33 pm
By: ECU News Services
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For tired teens, it's a dream come true: Slapping the snooze button has lost its stigma. Once the luxury of the lazy loll-about, those extra minutes of morning ZZZ's are just what the doctor ordered. Alarmed by an "epidemic" of sleep-deprived adolescents, the nation's pediatricians are urging...
Published: Monday, October 6th, 2014 @ 8:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When I hear advocates claiming to represent women tell us we need to focus on "women's issues," I roll my eyes and try not to be insulted. I thought we'd gotten past the days of patronizing the "little ladies"
Published: Sunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 10:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last fall when the American Heart Association issued new guidelines to help doctors teach their patients about their risks of developing cardiovascular disease – accompanied by a bulky computer spreadsheet calculator – one ECU physician thought he had a better idea.
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 2:28 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and people in eastern North Carolina are at high risk.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 2:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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First Lady Ann McCrory will light up the executive mansion in red tomorrow through the end of February to raise awareness for heart disease among women.
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 @ 6:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A pair of East Carolina University professors have published a cookbook with recipes that aim to curb inflammation and its related health complications.
Published: Monday, January 20th, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
By: ECU News Services
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For 15 years, a team led by Dr. John D. "Jack" Rose, a cardiologist and professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has been healing hearts and more in Nicaragua.
Published: Monday, December 2nd, 2013 @ 12:50 am
By: ECU News Services
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Two East Carolina University professors presented research this week at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2013 in Dallas.
Published: Sunday, November 24th, 2013 @ 1:09 am
By: ECU News Services
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Officials in Beaufort County passed a new ordinance that prohibits smoking and the use of other tobacco products and e-cigarettes in County buildings, vehicles and within fifty feet of all County buildings, beginning October 1, 2013.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 @ 1:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Stores that stock little if any healthy foods could be a contributor to obesity in urban and rural communities, but such stores could also be a catalyst for healthier eating.
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 @ 11:27 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It can be easy to assume that fresh and healthy food options are abundant in communities like Beaufort County that have fertile soil and a history rich in farming.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2013 @ 8:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has received a Top Ten Award by the American Academy of Family Physicians for contributing to the pipeline of family physicians.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 3:51 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Much of the debate about the 2010 federal health care reform law involved the so-called "individual mandate," the notion that the government could force everyone to buy...
Published: Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 @ 2:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Heart disease is the cause of one in every six deaths in the United States, and Vidant Health is raising community awareness about heart health through sponsored events in February.
Published: Tuesday, February 19th, 2013 @ 10:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Heart disease is the cause in one of every six deaths in the United States, and Vidant Health is raising community awareness about heart health through sponsored events in February.
Published: Friday, February 1st, 2013 @ 10:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Selling unpasteurized milk has been illegal in North Carolina for three decades. But that hasn't stopped growing numbers of families around the state from going to extreme lengths to obtain it.
Published: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the group didn't do this video for a class assignment, they took it just as seriously, said Russell, who wrote the lyrics. Rhodes, who performed for five years in a Dave Matthews cover band, handled the bulk of the vocals but they all sang.
Published: Sunday, January 13th, 2013 @ 10:01 am
By: ECU News Services
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Allen Stanford married the love of his life, Karen, on Sept. 9, 2012. Stanford is 78 years old and has been in and out of hospitals since the early 1990s with heart disease, including heart failure.
Published: Friday, October 12th, 2012 @ 9:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If I stipulate right off the bat that the American health care system is overly expensive, needlessly bureaucratic, and doesn't consistently generate outcomes for patients that justify its costs, will you keep an open mind about why these conditions exist?
Published: Monday, August 6th, 2012 @ 11:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nearly two years ago, Gov. Bev Perdue started discussing a subject that in recent years had become taboo in Raleigh: downsizing state boards and commissions.
Published: Saturday, June 30th, 2012 @ 6:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The East Carolina Heart Institute at Vidant Medical Center has received full accreditation with percuteous coronary intervention (PCI) from the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC).
Published: Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 @ 11:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I agree with the legislative intent to expand healthcare coverage to the 40 million uninsured Americans and preclude discrimination against Americans with preexisting conditions who are seeking coverage within the individual market.
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 @ 8:31 am
By: David Pring-Mill
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Southside High School faculty and staff members wore red on February 3 as part of the national campaign to fight heart disease in women.
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2012 @ 6:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As we march further into the proverbial "Book of Life," and as we close the Chapter of 2011 and open the Chapter of 2012, it is tradition that we examine the lives of notable people that have passed on before us.
Published: Sunday, January 1st, 2012 @ 10:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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