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Project integrates care for HIV, hepatitis C and opioid-use-disorder

MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University researcher Judith Feinberg has partnered with colleagues at Yale University to integrate services for opioid use disorder, the hepatitis C virus and HIV in 20 primary care clinics across West Virginia. The National Institute on Drug Abuse expects to ...

100 Days in Appalachia wins national Murrow Award

MORGANTOWN -- The nonprofit digital news outlet, 100 Days in Appalachia, incubated at the West Virginia University Reed College of Media Innovation Center, was named a 2021 recipient of a prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award. The publication was honored in the hard news category for its coverage of the rise of domestic extremism in the region and beyond. “On day 100 of our initial pop-up publication, we watched as the national media flocked to Pikeville, Ky., to report on the white nationalist groups who had gathered, months before the tragedy at Charlottesville,” said Dana ...

WVU faculty member strengthens physical activity policy

WVU Today A West Virginia University faculty member was part of a national effort to provide recommendations to expand physical activity for school-aged children in moving past the pandemic. College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences Ware Distinguished Professor Eloise Elliott was ...

WVU expands its mask policy for indoors

WVU Today  West Virginia University is updating its mask guidelines. Beginning Monday, all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, will be required to wear masks indoors in all WVU System buildings and facilities through Oct. 6, when public health conditions will be ...

WVU Medicine encourages patient use of local urgent care centers

WVU Medicine As COVID-19 cases across the state and country continue to rise, WVU Medicine Emergency Medicine encourages those seeking treatment to use  local urgent care centers when possible. “When it comes to medical emergencies, we do not want people to delay getting the care ...