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Pioneering Alzheimer’s patients at WVU: ‘They’re unselfish’

Cognitive carbonation, maybe? Sure looked like it on the scan. The patient on the receiving end acted like it, too. She was more aware, it seemed. And, just as important — maybe more so, even — it also appeared that the intellectual light had returned to the eyes of the ...

Justice and team: Pandemic winding down but not over yet

MORGANTOWN — COVID numbers in West Virginia and across the nation are improving, but it's too soon to relax, Gov. Jim Justice and his team said Monday. The numbers: 1,850 active cases; 1,223 new cases; 298 hospitalized; 49 in ICUs; and 18 on ventilators. Commenting on the hospital ...

WVU Medicine Fairmont Medical opens Sleep Evaluation Center

WVU TODAY Patients in the Marion County area can now access sleep medicine studies and consultations close to home at the new Sleep Evaluation Center at WVU Medicine Fairmont Medical Center, which officially opened Monday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The center features state-of-the-art evaluation equipment for the diagnosis and management of sleep apnea; insomnia; narcolepsy; parasomnias such as nightmares, sleep walking and talking; bed-wetting, restless leg syndrome and snoring. “Sleep disordered breathing is highly prevalent and under-recognized in West Virginia and ...