by Anthony Brown | Apr 7, 2016 | Health
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF For the past six years, the Cherokee Indian Police Department has participated in Operation Medicine Drop in an effort to encourage the proper disposal of medications. This year’s event, held recently, was...
by Anthony Brown | Apr 7, 2016 | Health
By SCOTT MCKIE B.P. ONE FEATHER STAFF If you have plans to travel to the Caribbean to soak up some rays or hit the links in Puerto Rico, the EBCI Public Health and Human Services division is warning EBCI tribal members to be aware of the Zika Virus....
by Anthony Brown | Aug 25, 2015 | Health
CULLOWHEE – Sarah Sneed, an EBCI tribal member from the Birdtown community who earned her law degree at Harvard Law School, will visit the Western Carolina University campus Wednesday, Sept. 2, to deliver the sixth annual Public Lecture on Indian Health. Sneed...
by Anthony Brown | Apr 8, 2015 | Health
CULLOWHEE – Western Carolina University recently joined 19 North Carolina universities, colleges, organizations and health agencies in the creation of a new statewide alliance designed to increase minority representation in the health professions. Called the...
by Anthony Brown | Apr 8, 2015 | Health
“Welcome to our jungle” was the repeated theme recently heard by third and fifth grade students at Cherokee Elementary School. As the students entered the green room, they quickly realized things were quite different. The room had been transformed into a...
by Anthony Brown | Apr 6, 2015 | Health
CULLOWHEE – Western Carolina University’s School of Nursing and its Nursing Network-Careers in Technology Mentoring Program will host their second annual nursing diversity conference in Asheville on Friday, April 24. The conference, “Supporting Academic...
