The Mon Health Medical Center Auxiliary recently celebrated its 75th anniversary. Kathy Pompili, of the auxiliary, said through the projects it has done, the auxiliary has raised $4 million for […]
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AG Morrisey files 2 more suits against opioid makers: Endo and Mallinckrodt
MORGANTOWN — Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has filed two more lawsuits against opioid makers in Boone County Circuit Court. One suit involves Endo Health Solutions and its subsidiaries Endo Pharmaceuticals […]
WVU researchers: Too much light may trigger depression
This time of year can cause trouble for people with seasonal affective disorder, a type of depression that the waning daylight of autumn evokes. But new research by West Virginia […]
Mon Health System president and CEO talks the future ahead
Mon Health System President and CEO David Goldberg marked his one-year anniversary on the job last month and spent some time with The Dominion Post Editorial Board to look back […]
Researcher: HPV turns cells into ‘zombies’
Changes in division may lead to cancer in men and women The human papilloma virus turns healthy cells into “zombies” and controls how frequently they reproduce, according to West Virginia […]
A Personal Cause
Family raises funds for room in name of Johnny Koon On a rainy October evening in 2011, several members of the Koon family, of Westover, assembled in the meeting hall […]
Mon Health Medical Center scores an ‘A’ for patient safety in new Leapfrog rating
MORGANTOWN — Mon Health Medical Center once again earned an “A” grade for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group, a safety-based nonprofit formed by major employers and healthcare groups, the […]
WVU Medicine performs the state’s first heart transplant
The first heart transplant procedure in West Virginia was successfully performed Saturday at the West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute on a 61-year-old man with heart failure. Michael Shullo, […]
Talking research: WVU study looks at how cancer, immune cells communicate
Cells can’t text each other the way we can, but they can still communicate. One way they send each other messages is through exosomes — tiny, spherical “packages” of information […]
Overdose numbers decreasing; Narcan maker says W.Va. cutting back on opioids
West Virginia has the highest age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths involving opioids, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In 2017, there were 833 drug overdose deaths involving […]
