MORGANTOWN – The House and Senate churned through a series of mostly off-the-radar bills on Wednesday; the bill that generated just about the most debate was one to eliminate the Board of Sanitarians. HB 3036 is the sanitarians bill. It's three sentences long and ends the board June 30, ...
MORGANTOWN – WVU Medicine has gained international recognition for its pioneering program in a relatively new and little known field: cardio-oncology. The Heart and Vascular Institute's cardio-oncology program has been named a Gold Center of Excellence – the highest possible ...
KINGWOOD — COVID cases are beginning to decline in Preston County as the delta variant transitions to omicron — but staffing and equipment problems caused by the virus still exist. Dr. Fred Conley, Preston County health officer, said Preston Memorial Hospital ran out of ventilators and ...
If it’s the first Friday in February and snowing (or sleeting or both), it must be Give Kids a Smile! at Monongalia County Health Department. However, the bad weather did not deter parents from taking their children to MCHD Dentistry, the health department’s full service dental office, ...
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,” ...
MORGANTOWN – Marion County's three delegates and state senators said in a Tuesday press release that they oppose HB 4365, to close three of the state’s four long-term care hospitals, effect Jan. 1, 2023: Jackie Withrow Hospital, John Manchin Sr. Health Care Center and Lakin ...
