CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice announced today that out of an abundance of caution and upon the recommendation released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food […]
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April 11 letters to the editor
Editor’s note: Letters in support of candidates for city council will not be accepted after April 14 and will not be published after April 18. Program gives ‘Hope’ to West […]
In Pursuit of Pathogens
WVU Today In a time when most people are avoiding diseases like the plague, one West Virginia University biology student is pursuing them instead. Oxford, Pa., native Jessica Towey researches […]
Patients need Hopemont to stay open, delegates say
KINGWOOD – A bill (HB 2626) introduced Feb. 18 by the House of Delegates Health and Human Resources Committee in an effort to close four state-owned hospitals, one of which […]
6 sober living homes receive state certification
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Six sober living homes for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder have received state certification. West Virginia Sober Living has recovery homes in Monongalia and Kanawha counties, with […]
March 28 letters to the editor
To be a destination or to be the doldrums? I personally do not want more people to come live in West Virginia and I hope more of them leave. So, […]
Treatment Offers Wave of Hope
WVU Today On the heels of the country’s deadliest year for drug overdoses, the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute launched a first-in-the-world clinical trial to investigate the use of […]
A Year of Living in a Pandemic
Two years before, and you may have thought a movie crew was filming a scene for a sci-fi contagion thriller. Worried people behind the wheel, steering and snaking their cars […]
Connected epidemics: HIV and opioids
WVU Today Long before COVID-19 entered the picture, West Virginia had been battling two other major public health crises: Opioids and HIV. Dr. Sally Hodder, a leading infectious disease expert […]
Preston Commission plans to fight proposed closure of Hopemont Hospital
KINGWOOD – Members of the Preston County Commission said they will send individual letters to their state delegates opposing the closing of Hopemont Hospital. Hopemont Hospital is a 98-bed, licensed, […]
