A second area resident was diagnosed with hepatitis A and then hospitalized for it, and Monongalia County Health Department encourages community members to consider getting vaccinated to prevent this illness. […]
Healthcare
Departing Mylan executives will net millions in Upjohn merger golden parachutes
MORGANTOWN — Mylan CEO Heather Bresch will retire with a comfortable golden parachute when the company completes its merger with Upjohn next year. According to a recent Upjohn SEC filing, […]
WVU Medicine 1st multi-organ transplant center in West Virginia
WVU Medicine WVU Medicine received approval from the United Network for Organ Sharing to offer kidney transplants, making it West Virginia’s first and only fully functional multi-organ transplant center. “In […]
WVU researchers studying how change in opioid laws impacts healthcare, drug crisis
WVU Today In 2017, West Virginia healthcare providers wrote 81.3 opioid prescriptions for every 100 state residents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The national average? Just […]
WVU teams with Hearts of Gold to train service dogs for veterans
While serving in the U.S. Army, service members are joined by a “battle buddy” — a friend to watch out for them. For some local veterans, that friend is four-legged […]
WVU Extension takes on pre-diabetes in kids
WVU Today Armed with data from a new study raising alarms about the health of children in the Mountain State, a West Virginia University Extension Service program mobilized to help […]
Hepatitis A confirmed in Morgantown
Monongalia County Health Department confirmed a case of hepatitis A in a food worker at Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen on Earl L. Core Road in Morgantown. “While the risk of contracting […]
WVU Doctor: Drug crisis is a ‘kind of cancer eating away a the fiber of society’
The drug crisis in West Virginia won’t be cured overnight, or with one or two elections. It will take several generations to reverse. That’s what Dr. Michael Brumage, director of […]
Mon Health’s Auxiliary hosts gathering to recognize volunteers
Seventy-five years old, with a newborn. The man and woman with the little kid in the middle politely threaded through the proceedings at Mon Health Medical Center on Tuesday. “Excuse […]
Insulin caravan, passport deadline nears
Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer, D-Monongalia, held a press conference about a December bus caravan to Canada to purchase insulin at the Monongalia County Health Department Tuesday afternoon. She was joined […]
