MORGANTOWN – West Virginia's medical cannabis program continues to grow. The legislation enabling the program passed in 2017, but nothing really got rolling until 2022. Morgantown's first dispensary opened in November that year. Now there are eight in Monongalia County, and 2,162 ...
Will this past weekend in north-central West Virginia be the one that turns out to be a super-spreader for COVID? That’s what Ed Abbott of the Monongalia County Health Department was wondering last week. After all, said Abbott, who is the department’s program manager for infection ...
Thanks to the West Virginia Department of Health’s (DH) implementation of a new program outlining protocols for whole blood transfusions on ambulances across the state, West Virginians will be able to receive greater emergency care with an increased likelihood of positive outcomes for ...
MORGANTOWN — Mon Health Marion Neighborhood Hospital in White Hall was named on a Becker's Hospital Review list of the 12 best hospitals in the nation for short emergency department wait times. Mon Health Marion's median wait time for the period of October 2022 through September 2023 was ...
MORGANTOWN — College Basketball Hall of Famer and former WVU Coach Bob Huggins came to Mon Health Medical Center Thursday morning to present a $380,000 check to support cancer care services at Mon Health Cancer Center. Huggins raised the money for the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Endowment ...
According to Mayo Clinic, 1855 saw the first-ever vaccination requirement for students attending public schools in Massachusetts, and other states soon followed with their own vaccine mandates. At the time, this was a requirement of the vaccine against smallpox, a disease that the CDC states ...
