The West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Innovation Center is turning purple this month. The lights shinning down on the building most nights are to mark September as World Alzheimer’s […]
Healthcare
WV Chamber Summit: Healthcare leaders address challenges, goals of personal and public health
MORGANTOWN – The changing landscape of healthcare and its many challenges occupied a good portion of Thursday’s West Virginia Chamber of Commerce 2022 Summit. Dave Ramsey, president and CEO of […]
Mon Health, CAMC complete merger into Vandalia Health
MORGANTOWN — Mon Health System and CAMC Health System officially became Vandalia Health at 4 p.m. Wednesday. CAMC Health System President and CEO Dave Ramsey made the announcement Thursday morning […]
Hospitals participating in Save a Life Day
On Sept. 8, all 55 West Virginia counties are joining together to host the largest day of free naloxone (Narcan) distribution in the state. And Mon Health System hospitals will […]
Mon QRT to host Free Naloxone Day
Naloxone saves lives — that’s a simple medical fact. It gives sons and daughters back to their parents. Mothers and fathers are kept alive for their kids. Like the woman […]
State not quite over the omicron hump yet, Justice and team warn; omicron boosters expected after Labor Day
MORGANTOWN – Active COVID cases and hospital numbers are dipping slightly but Gov. Jim Justice and his team warned that West Virginia is not over the hump yet. The state […]
Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute expands Alzheimer’s research in latest trial
WVU MEDICINE The West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) launched afirst-in-the-world clinical trial pairing focused ultrasound treatment with Alzheimer’s antibody drug therapy to a targeted area of the brain, […]
Health Department offering monkeypox vaccine clinic
Monongalia County Health Department has received its first shipment of the JYNNEOS vaccine, which has emergency use authorization (EUA) from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to inoculate individuals against […]
Morrisey files opioid suit against Kroger Pharmacy; joins 16 other states to question investment firm’s ties to BDS movement
MORGANTOWN – Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced on Wednesday morning another opioid lawsuit – this one against Kroger Pharmacy. Morrisey also commented on a multistate letter raising concerns about a […]
Hoyer provides update on omicron booster; Justice touts building lakes for flood control and mourns death of 13-year-old from COVID
MORGANTOWN — The omicron booster and lake-building were the primary themes of Tuesday’s COVID briefing, but Gov. Jim Justice opened on a tragic note. Among the 23 new COVID-related deaths […]
