In 1999, Rob Bilott, an environmental lawyer who had built his career defending large corporations took on the case of a Parkersburg farmer, Wilbur Tennant, whose cattle were dying. Tennant believed chemicals from a DuPont landfill were contaminating a stream that ran past ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL Periodically I get emails from readers who have seen a deer that just doesn’t look normal. They write because they want to know the cause. Let me start with the most unique and unusual problem. A month ago, I got an email from a hunter who found a shed ...
WVU Today As West Virginia became the epicenter of the nation’s opioid epidemic, donor dollars brought Dr. Judith Feinberg to the West Virginia University School of Medicine to expand research focused on the intersection of addiction and infectious disease. More than five ...
Salk’s son talks about COVID Do the necessary clinical work and don’t rush a vaccine for COVID-19. That’s what Peter Salk, son of polio vaccine inventor Jonas Salk, told the Morgantown Rotary Club Thursday. “Waiting is a reasonable thing to do,” said Salk during his Zoom ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Catholic Charities West Virginia was announced as the winner of the Catholic Charities USA Social Innovation Challenge. CCWVa will receive a $333,333 grant for its innovative Hospital Transition Program. “We are incredibly grateful to CCUSA for ...
In two months, we’ll start to hear hunters talking about epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) killing deer. EHD is a sometimes fatal disease in ruminants, most importantly white-tailed deer. This is a viral disease and it is transmitted by a biting fly called a midge. We can’t get ...