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Faith-community nurses promote physical activity among congregants

 WVU Today If someone joins a church, mosque or synagogue, they may be seeking better emotional or spiritual health. But according to research out of West Virginia University, faith communities have the potential to promote physical wellbeing, as well. A new study led by Angel ...

WVU student recognized for research

WVU Today West Virginia University student Teagan  Kuzniar was first drawn to environmental issues after a guest lecture in her high school science class from a member of the Friends of Deckers Creek, a nonprofit organization that works to clean-up and protect the Deckers Creek ...

Uncovering some secrets of the sun

WVU Today  West Virginia University physicists are uncovering secrets of the sun’s turbulent surface in the lab. A new study featured on the cover of the March 2021 issue of Physics of Plasmas is the first published research from WVU’s PHASMA experiment in the Center for ...

WVUM doc recognized for excellence in laser use

Newsroom@DominionPost.com  Dr.  Chad Morley,  WVU Medicine urologist, was  recognized for excellence in performing GreenLight™ laser therapy treatment — a minimally invasive outpatient procedure to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), which can relieve ...

WVU Hospitals receives CON approval

WVU Medicine WVU Hospitals has become the first hospital in West Virginia to receive Certificate of Need  approval to move its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at WVU Medicine Children’s from Level III status to Level IV status. The designation will take effect later this ...

Checking the Oil

WVU Today People have been driving under the influence of alcohol since before the first person crank-started a Ford Model T. But CBD oil didn’t become a concern until years after people began driving the Tesla Model X. The widespread use of CBD oil is so new  scientists don’t ...