BY CARRIE HODOUSEK CHARLESTON — West Virginia native and Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton is opening up about her hospitalization in October when she was diagnosed with a rare form of pneumonia. Retton, who will be 56 this month, joined her daughter Shayla Schrepfer for an ...
WVU MEDICINE The WVU Heart and Vascular Institute Advanced Heart Failure team was the first in West Virginia to implant the Cordella® Pulmonary Artery Pressure Sensor System as part of the PROACTIVE-HF Pivotal Trial sponsored by Endotronix. The study aims to reduce hospitalization in ...
Gov. Jim Justice and his advisers held the last COVID-19 press conference of 2021 Thursday morning, presenting a concerning outlook for the Mountain State entering 2022, with both omicron and delta poised to surge. “We are getting ready to see the storm come to West Virginia as it has ...
MORGANTOWN — A few of the COVID numbers dipped back downward Wednesday and Gov. Jim Justice expressed some optimism. “We think we're at the peak level,” he said. “There's absolutely every reason to believe we're right at the eye of the storm.” Mandates — vaccine and masks ...
MORGANTOWN -- For the first time in weeks, many of West Virginia’s COVID statistics are trending down. “It seems like we’re just holding, we’re in a hold pattern right at the peak, but it looks like the hold pattern could absolutely just start flowing our way,” Gov. Jim Justice ...
KINGWOOD — Preston County has the 10th highest COVID infection rate in the state of West Virginia, according to Preston County Health Department Director V. J. Davis. “Tomorrow it could be even higher,” he said at Thursday’s Preston County Health Department meeting. Davis said ...