For years, the term “Dr. Google” has been used to describe the growing tendency of patients to search online for information about symptoms, diagnoses, medications and treatments before or after seeing their physician. Just as physicians and patients learned how to navigate that world, a ...
MORGANTOWN – Today, if you want to know how your favorite restaurants perform during inspections conducted by sanitarians with the Monongalia County Health Department, you can find out via a link on the health department’s website. County Health Officer Dr. Brian Huggins would like that ...
Two separate overdose-related deaths at Ole Miss on Monday might have fueled interest in the Monongalia County Quick Response Team’s Save a Life Day on Thursday, as WVU students scooped up free two-dose kits of naloxone faster than anticipated. Jacob Workman of Monongalia County Health ...
BRIDGEPORT – Vandalia Health leaders joined elected officials, community partners, physicians, staff and supporters Tuesday to celebrate the grand opening of Vandalia Health Mon Harrison Neighborhood Hospital, a new $26 million hospital expanding access to emergency and inpatient care in ...
In the few years that Monongalia County Health Department’s Jacob Workman has helped distribute Narcan at Save a Life Day events, he has seen individuals return to refill their supply of the medication that reverses an opioid overdose. “There was one story about a person who talked about ...
By David Beard MORGANTOWN – Young patients put colorful hand prints on a white Hyundai Palisade Thursday morning in front of WVU Medicine Golisano Children's. And Hyundai's Hope on Wheels program presented Children's Blood Disorders & Cancer Center a grant of $100,000 to support the ...
