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Resident asked to speak at House hearing

Mindy Salango is a Morgantown resident who lives with Type 1 diabetes. Salango is a mom, has a full-time job with health insurance and still struggles to afford her medications. She said she pays about $350 a month for her life-saving insulin and daily supplies. Salango has been a ...

Smith relinquishing administrative role within health dept.

 “We have collectively built a public health machine,” Dr. Lee Smith said Thursday to open his final report as executive director of the Monongalia County Health Department. And now, more than 20 months into the public health baptism by fire known as COVID-19, it’s time for some ...

Justice encourages boosters before winter surge

At Thursday’s press conference, Gov. Jim Justice and his COVID advisors continued to press West Virginians to get vaccinated, and specifically to get booster shots ahead of an expected winter surge. With COVID czar Dr. Clay Marsh absent, it fell to Joint Interagency Task Force Director ...

WVU announces plans for spring 2022 semester

WVU Today West Virginia University’s spring 2022 semester will begin Jan. 10, with many of the current COVID-19 campus health and safety protocols remaining in place as health officials monitor the emerging omicron variant. The COVID-19 protocols will be re-evaluated as additional ...

COLUMN: Coping with stress

Do you have something in your life consuming you? You wake up every day and you know what you have to get done and maybe you  do, maybe you don’t. There is nothing physically stopping you from going about your day, but you feel it. Mentally, a fog is clouding your judgment, a simple ...