MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito announced this week federal grants to support eight projects at WVU Hospitals, including WVU Medicine Children’s, WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, and an award for the WVU Health Sciences Center. Capito is ranking member of the Senate ...
On a late August morning, Jamie Fenton had the opportunity to cross something off his list that he had not done in a long time — sit in a dental chair and have his teeth assessed and cleaned. Tiffany Summerlin, a dental hygienist with MCHD Dentistry at Monongalia County Health Department as well as Smile Express’ coordinator, also chatted with Fenton and gave him advice for future dental visits to get his smile back in shape. “This is amazing,” said Denton, who lives in the Salem area but was spending time as a guest at the WVU Center for Hope and Healing. “It’s great ...
MORGANTOWN – Mon Health System has begun offering a specialized prostate cancer immunotherapy treatment not available anywhere else in the state, and its first patient has just completed his treatment. It involves a process similar to dialysis called apheresis and an advanced drug called ...
MORGANTOWN – Mon Health System is working with a technology platform developed in Morgantown to help expectant and post-delivery moms deal with mental health challenges, and together they hope to reach out to other health systems to make it the gold standard of perinatal care. The ...
BY CARRIE HODOUSEK CHARLESTON — State Coronavirus Czar Dr. Clay Marsh said West Virginians should have a better idea by the end of this week of who should receive the new COVID-19 vaccine. “Our hope is by the end of the week we will have the ability for people to start to schedule and receive these new updated shots,” Marsh said on Tuesday’s MetroNews “Talkline.” A new Pfizer and Moderna COVID booster gained approval Monday from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) could follow suit during an advisory ...
MORGANTOWN – Vandalia Health – the union of Mon Health System and Charleston Area Medical Center – turns one this month. David Goldberg, president and CEO of Mon Health System and executive vice president of Vandalia Health talked with The Dominion Post about what Vandalia is and ...
