The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will host a live Spanish-language Cafecito and tele-town hall on Tuesday, Feb. 27, from 6 to 7 p.m., to discuss how to support and improve heart health as well as prevent and manage heart disease.
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 @ 8:56 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
|
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will host a live fireside chat and tele-town hall on Tues., Feb. 20, from 6 to 7 p.m., to discuss how to support and improve heart health as well as prevent and manage heart disease.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 @ 2:30 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
|
New grants will help public schools provide nutritious school breakfast to more children to support their health, development and learning
Published: Monday, December 4th, 2023 @ 2:41 am
By: Governor's Office
|
Building on its ongoing COVID-19 events, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will host a live fireside chat and tele-town hall on Wednesday, Feb. 22, from 6 to 7 p.m. to discuss the importance of heart health as well as heart disease prevention and management.
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2023 @ 2:27 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
|
A South Dakota health official appointed by Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has retired following reports of a controversial state contract with a transgender activist group.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 8:56 am
By: Daily Wire
|
ECU, ECU Health research focuses on improving rural health
Published: Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 @ 10:39 pm
By: ECU News Services
|
More experiments on the people through gene editing
Published: Sunday, October 16th, 2022 @ 9:21 am
By: Countrygirl1411
|
He is correct
Published: Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 @ 9:34 am
By: Countrygirl1411
|
"If you don't feel safe sitting in a coffee shop unless the five-year-old across the room is vaccinated, you should stay home."
Published: Monday, December 27th, 2021 @ 4:18 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
North Carolina's Community Health Worker Initiative will expand as part of the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion's Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR) initiative.
Published: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 7:27 am
By: Announcements
|
Bladen County, which has a vaccination rate of only 33%, is experiencing critical viral spread and increases in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
Published: Saturday, July 10th, 2021 @ 4:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
ECU professor studies mosquito insecticide resistance
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 7:04 pm
By: ECU News Services
|
We, the Heads of State/Government of Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United States of America, met via videoconference.
Published: Monday, November 16th, 2020 @ 7:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
A recent report by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control makes that very clear.
Published: Friday, August 14th, 2020 @ 3:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has awarded grants to five local North Carolina organizations to help address the disparate impact COVID-19 is having among the state’s Hispanic and LatinX communities.
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2020 @ 9:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
Expert says most measures we're using are not evidence based and will not make much difference
Published: Sunday, May 10th, 2020 @ 8:02 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
|
President Donald J. Trump is safeguarding public health by helping ensure Americans have access to effective influenza vaccines
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 4:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Published: Saturday, July 6th, 2019 @ 11:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed the first death related to an ongoing outbreak of hepatitis A affecting parts of North Carolina
Published: Thursday, November 8th, 2018 @ 7:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
Today, the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation (FHLI) announced the selection of NCCARE360 to build the North Carolina Resource Platform-a new statewide tool to make it easier for providers, insurers and community-based organizations to connect people.
Published: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018 @ 11:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
State health officials are encouraging residents and visitors to take precautions to prevent mosquito-borne illnesses following the death of a North Carolina resident from West Nile virus infection last week. This is the state's first death from and first confirmed case of West Nile virus in 2018
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 2:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
Millions of people in the U.S. take statins, a class of drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol, reducing the risk of heart disease and other health problems
Published: Friday, September 29th, 2017 @ 2:49 am
By: ECU News Services
|
The Vidant Health Foundation is distributing more than $2 million to 142 grants for communities in eastern North Carolina for the 2016-2017 grant cycle
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2016 @ 10:51 am
By: Christopher Maye
|
Following the outbreak of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), joint with other senators, on a bipartisan letter addressed to United States Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
Published: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016 @ 1:39 pm
By: Thom Tillis
|
The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today...
Published: Thursday, February 4th, 2016 @ 3:42 am
By: McCrory Communications
|
The Vidant Health Foundation distributed more than $1.8 million through 132 grants for communities in eastern North Carolina for the 2015-2016 grant cycle. Grants were awarded for programs that focused on chronic disease prevention and management, access to care and nutrition and physical activity.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:33 am
By: Chris Downey
|
At last week's wellness day in Rocky Mount, Willie Green compared preventive health care to looking after his car. "You got to keep everything checked up," he said. "It's like checking the air in your tires." Green was one of more than 20 men and women from Rocky Mount and surrounding towns that...
Published: Saturday, March 8th, 2014 @ 2:23 pm
By: ECU News Services
|
Building a road and building better health care require a community to work together. That was the message from keynote speaker Dr. Lori Carter-Edwards at the 10th annual Jean Mills Health Symposium held Feb. 7 at East Carolina University. Using a road-building project in three towns to...
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2014 @ 11:00 pm
By: ECU News Services
|
Jean Mills earned two college degrees, taught French and Spanish, and studied and traveled throughout the United States and abroad during her short life.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2014 @ 1:45 am
By: ECU News Services
|
Vidant Beaufort Hospital is accepting letters of intent for the Community Benefit Grants program to support projects in the program’s health-related focus areas of access to care, chronic disease prevention and management and nutrition/physical activity.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 11:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
November 25th is Public Health Thank You Day. This day is celebrated on the Monday before Thanksgiving and is used to remind us of how Public Health is on the frontline in keeping Americans safe from disease and illnesses.
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2013 @ 12:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
Vidant Beaufort Hospital recently awarded its annual community benefit grants totaling $133,531 to six local community organizations. These funds are made available from the Vidant Health Foundation to help support community projects that focus on wellness and prevention strategies.
Published: Saturday, August 24th, 2013 @ 10:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
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
|