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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 ...

Have a healthy holiday season

What’s on your holiday to-do list? Shopping? Meal planning? Decorations? How about a flu vaccine? Monongalia County Health Department recommends getting a flu shot no later than late October or early November, so that the inoculation will reach full effectiveness before families and ...

'We can treat whatever walks through the door'

Capito checks on neighborhood hospital WHITE HALL —– It was a busy day in the neighborhood Monday morning, in this bustling commercial district just south of Fairmont in outlying Marion County. Bulldozers and dump trucks moved earth in and around the under-construction Middletown ...

Patient sign-up coming in Dec.

Events planned for Morgantown and Weston Newsroom@DominionPost.com  The West Virginia Office of Medical Cannabis will host public sign-up events for medical cannabis patients from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.  Dec. 1 at Fairfield Inn & Suites, 161 Lewis Drive, Morgantown, and from 9 ...

Rural patients in ICUs with COVID at higher risk of dying

WVU Today The earliest wave of COVID-19 spared much of rural America, striking people who live in urban areas with far more frequency. The latest surge was different, however. Nonmetropolitan COVID cases outpaced metropolitan ones. So did overall COVID mortality rates. According to new ...