Novant Health officials plan to bring outpatient clinics to two floors of the former Verizon Wireless call center in midtown Wilmington.   Health care real estate firm Flagship Health Properties acquired the three-story, 153,526-square-foot building at 3601 Converse Road last week for $21 million, according to a deed and a news release issued Wednesday. Novant Healt ...

Monteith Construction and Cape Fear Commercial in Wilmington are urging their employees to use “all the tools in the toolbox,” but not in the traditional sense of real estate and construction. They support using tools for better health within their companies and the community. Through an Employer Solutions program at Novant Health, the two companies are payi ...

EmergeOrtho-Coastal Region recently announced that it has expanded its partnership with the Wilmington Hammerheads and the city of Wilmington by becoming the official health care provider and sports medicine team for the upcoming nCino Sports Park. “This partnership positions EmergeOrtho-Coastal Region as the premier provider of healthcare services for the esteeme ...

A million dollars in research grant funding will help launch two clinical trials led by Wilmington- and Chapel Hill-based doctors, Novant Health officials announced Tuesday. The two $500,000 grants come from a collaborative of Novant Health, UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine, which formed after the sale of New Hanover Regional Medical Center to Novant Health in 2021 ...

In early 2021, Novant Health announced that Wilmington native and six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan donated $10 million to open two Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinics in New Hanover County. At the corner of 15th and Greenfield streets, the first clinic opened its doors in April with Emilia Parrott as lead physician and Nicholas Green as clinic admini ...

A silver tsunami is coming. That’s according to statistics from the AARP, or American Association of Retired Persons, which finds that over the past several decades, about 10,000 Americans a day have turned 65. By 2024, that number will increase to 11,200 a day, a total of 4.1 million yearly. For those retiring at or around this age, that may mean moving to a resi ...

This spring, Cape Fear Community College graduated its 24th class of dental hygienists since the program’s inception in 1991. The class of 2024 is the first class to graduate with local anesthesia certification, which has been new to dental hygiene practice in North Carolina since 2021. The certification was made possible after North Carolina passed a law enhancin ...

A vaccine research project out of the University of North Carolina Wilmington was approved for grant funding in NCInnovation’s inaugural grant cycle, officials announced this week.   UNCW associate professor of chemistry Ying Wang received one of eight grants in NCI’s pilot grant cycle. Wang is developing a vaccine platform that could produce a universal ...

On Tuesday, Michael Jordan came to Wilmington to cut the ribbon on the first of two medical clinics he’s helped fund in his hometown. Novant Health announced in early 2021 that the Wilmington native and six-time NBA champion had donated $10 million to help open two Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinics in New Hanover County. Jordan has previously par ...

Backed by years of biologics formulation development for mRNA vaccines, monoclonal antibodies and peptide drugs, Ying Wang, associate professor of chemistry, started The Wang Lab at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in July 2015.  Since then, The Wang Lab has developed new formulation technologies in collaboration with four large pharmaceutical firms and ...