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How should medical schools grapple with teaching new technologies?
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2024 @ 10:39 am
By: ECU News Services
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The Tar Heel State earned failing marks for healthcare and its costs according to a list by Forbes Advisor ranking of all 50 states.
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 8:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Rural North Carolina has some of the most beautiful scenery in America, as documented by the growing numbers of tourists.
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 9:19 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Innovation, community partnerships help ECU bring dental care to underserved Hyde County
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 @ 1:48 am
By: ECU News Services
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the world’s fifth-richest man, thinks that Communist China should be praised for the way it has handled poverty.
Published: Monday, October 3rd, 2022 @ 12:03 am
By: Daily Wire
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Primary care has strong showing at ECU’s annual Match Day event
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 10:16 am
By: ECU News Services
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ECU partnering with Dartmouth to study, treat chronic COVID-19
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 11:36 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Rural Health is proud to recognize the selfless, community-minded spirit of health professionals and volunteers in North Carolina communities during National Rural Health Day 2021.
Published: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 @ 11:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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COVID-19 Situation Update: August 11
Published: Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 @ 1:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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COVID-19 Situation Update: August 4
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 2:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina received more than $4.9 million federal funds for small rural hospitals in the state to provide COVID-19 testing and mitigation
Published: Monday, October 11th, 2021 @ 7:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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ECU announces new fund to support COVID-19 research and relief efforts
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2021 @ 9:10 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Rural Health is proud to recognize the innovation, quality of care and dedication of health professionals and volunteers in communities during National Rural Health Day 2020.
Published: Monday, November 16th, 2020 @ 7:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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
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Four million North Carolinians have not filled out the 2020 census. That’s not good news for a number of reasons.
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2020 @ 8:11 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Dr. Rebecca Snyder may be relatively new to Pirate Nation, but East Carolina University’s mission to support the rural region in which it is located made coming to ECU an easy choice.
Published: Thursday, April 2nd, 2020 @ 8:42 am
By: ECU News Services
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For the second consecutive year, Vidant Medical Center (VMC) has received the Mission: Lifeline® Gold STEMI Receiving Center Quality Achievement Award and the NSTEMI Gold Quality Achievement Award for implementing the most up-to-date evidence-based treatments to improve patient care
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2019 @ 3:36 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, wants to throw a lifeline to as many as 20 rural hospitals that are headed toward insolvency.
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2019 @ 8:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Six rural North Carolina communities will share $1.2 million in federal grant funds to strengthen and expand their response to opioid use disorder with increased planning; prevention; evidence-based treatment, including medication-assisted treatment; and recovery service delivery.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 10:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The struggle over Vidant Health, the regional hospital network affiliated with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, escalated Thursday.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 5:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Residents in Wilson, Salisbury, Mooresville, Davidson, and Morganton were being hit with higher taxes and even electricity and water rates as their cities were bleeding money. Why?
Published: Thursday, April 25th, 2019 @ 11:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Members of the North Carolina General Assembly will face tough decisions on important health care legislation in the current session.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2019 @ 6:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Stand Up for ENC, the movement sparked by the State Treasurer's proposed cuts to State Health Plan reimbursements, continues to generate awareness and gain momentum
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2018 @ 4:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Undoubtedly, we will continue to hear a lot about the growing urban-rural divide in North Carolina and across the nation. We’ve seen it continually in our electoral presidential vote maps for decades. It’s now reaching more of a breaking point culturally and politically
Published: Sunday, November 25th, 2018 @ 6:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Here’s a simple illustration of the urban/rural population divide in North Carolina: The state’s two most-populous counties — Wake and Mecklenburg — are home to about as many people as the total number of residents in the 18 smallest counties
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2018 @ 12:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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80 of North Carolina's 100 counties are considered rural, understanding the definition to be a county in which the population density is less than 250 people per square mile
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Monday, N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson announced and awarded this year's school infrastructure grants from the new Needs-Based Public School Capital Fund to four counties - two of which are in my district, Gates and Camden
Published: Friday, November 10th, 2017 @ 3:21 pm
By: Bill Cook
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In North Carolina, roughly a third of all deaths are caused by heart disease. And many of these deaths are preventable
Published: Tuesday, February 28th, 2017 @ 11:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University was ranked among the nation's top five medical schools again this year for the high percentage of its graduates pursuing careers in family medicine.
Published: Saturday, October 8th, 2016 @ 7:24 pm
By: ECU News Services
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In any industry, the quality of service or whether one receives services at all hinges on one critical element: access
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2016 @ 10:25 pm
By: ECU News Services
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At least half of North Carolina, primarily rural, seems to be in decline. That's the dramatic conclusion you'll sometimes hear drawn from the latest Census Bureau county-level population estimates
Published: Friday, May 27th, 2016 @ 1:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new program at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University encourages medical students to pursue their individual passions and get academic recognition for those pursuits.
Published: Sunday, March 13th, 2016 @ 4:19 am
By: ECU News Services
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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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