Salk’s son talks about COVID Do the necessary clinical work and don’t rush a vaccine for COVID-19. That’s what Peter Salk, son of polio vaccine inventor Jonas Salk, told the […]
Healthcare
Mon Health System, Mylan Park host event
Features costume parade, movie night, flu shots Newsroom@DominionPost.com With Halloween around the corner, Mon Health System and Mylan Park are teaming up again to provide safe, socially distanced entertainment for […]
Sheriff Dept. hosts Drug Take Back Day
If you have unneeded, unwanted or expired prescriptions at home but are unsure how to best dispose of them, you’ll have the opportunity to do so safely Saturday. That […]
Preston has 20 new COVID cases in six days
KINGWOOD — “I really hope this is not a sign of what is to come with winter.” That was Preston County Health Department Director V.J. Davis’s response to the county’s […]
200K could lose ACA insurance
If the Affordable Care Act is overturned, nearly 200,000 West Virginians would lose their health care insurance and 16,000 jobs in the state would be lost. These are some of […]
National Drug Take Back Day partnership
Newsroom@DominionPost.com West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced his office will be involved in this weekend’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by partnering with the Morgantown Police Department, along […]
Transplant program fills need in state
WVU Medicine Jeremy Cushwa isn’t the type of guy to back down from a challenge. Diagnosed with renal failure nearly five years ago, Cushwa, 31, began a dialysis program near […]
Collaboration earns $1.35M grant to reduce impact of substance abuse
WVU Today McDowell County — in the southern coalfields of West Virginia — is the second-most at-risk in the nation for an HIV outbreak related to drug injection. Neighboring Wyoming […]
Catholic Charities W.Va. wins $333K Innovation Challenge
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Catholic Charities West Virginia was announced as the winner of the Catholic Charities USA Social Innovation Challenge. CCWVa will receive a $333,333 grant for its innovative Hospital Transition Program. […]
Physical therapist helps patients cast votes
Relatively speaking, William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan might not have anything on Rebekah Aranda. By the end of last week, more than 17 million citizens had already cast […]
