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WVU Health, Owens & Minor Inc. announce partnership

Agreement will ensure clinicians have what they need Newsroom@DominionPost.com The West Virginia University Health System, which operates under the brand name WVU Medicine,  announced a new strategic partnership with Owens & Minor Inc., a leading global healthcare solutions ...

WVU will not conduct back-to-campus testing, scaling back vaccination efforts

MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University will not conduct back-to-campus COVID-19 testing for the spring semester. Assistant Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Erin Newmeyer confirmed Friday that the university is scaling back its testing and vaccination efforts and will play more of a ...

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 ...