Healthier Lives News

May 06, 2026
  • Sarah McGee

Faculty, staff and students receive University Awards for Service

More than 130 faculty, staff and students at East Carolina University who embody ECU’s motto, Servire, were honored Wednesday during the University Awards for Service ceremony in the Main Campus...

May 30, 2024
  • Sarah McGee

Healthier Lives initiative delivers training, addresses needs

Health care providers of East Carolina University’s Healthier Lives initiative in the Brody School of Medicine continue to use the program to address health care needs for children in rural eastern North Carolina...

Mar 11, 2024
  • Sarah McGee

Medical students help rural schoolchildren avoid suspension with mobile physicals

In North Carolina, first-time public schoolchildren and students who have moved here from other states are required to have a physical health assessment within 30 days of their enrollment. Those...

Feb 16, 2022
  • Sarah McGee

Health Care Was Hard to Come By. So This Superintendent Stepped Up

Finding a pediatrician or behavioral-health specialist is a time-consuming endeavor for parents in rural Jones County, N.C. With only one private pediatric practice and few local organizations offering mental- and...

Nov 02, 2020
  • Sarah McGee

Healthier Lives at School and Beyond: ECU, Duplin County Schools partner on telemedicine

It’s the middle of the school day, and Jon has an ear ache that’s making it difficult for him to focus in class. He goes to the school nurse’s office,...

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