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Go Red For Women observed throughout Mon Health System

February is Heart Month, and Mon Health System employees are participating in activities to raise awareness of cardiac issues, especially in women. For more than a decade, Mon Health hospitals have participated in the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women initiative with employees wearing red on the first Friday in February, this year’s being Friday. “National Wear Red Day is an effort to spread awareness that one in three women are dying from cardiovascular disease and remains the leading killer of women in the U.S., according to the American Heart Association,” ...

Residents admitted for COVID reach pandemic high

As the state’s COVID-19 team has warned was likely in the last several briefings, West Virginia has officially hit its highest number of residents hospitalized with the virus to date — 1,043. The previous peak saw 1,012 people admitted with the disease. Even more concerned, said ...

Legislators pass insulin copay, mining mutual insurance company bills

MORGANTOWN – Legislators passed bills on Wednesday to lower patient copays for insulin and devices to treat diabetes, to establish a Parkinson's disease registry to enhance research at WVU, and to create a mining mutual insurance company to aid the coal industry and protect state ...