MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Health Department does not intend to administer monoclonal antibody infusions. The treatment, which has emergency-use authorization from the FDA, is a 250 ml intravenous infusion of lab-created proteins intended to boost the immune system of recipients ...
Monongalia County Health Department About 1,408 doses of naloxone reached the hands of the general public on Saturday during Save a Life Day, an effort to make the medication, which reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, more accessible to members of the community. Volunteers were ...
Now, more than ever, you don’t want to have a heart attack. Or get into a car accident. Or break your leg. None of those incidents are fun in any circumstances. But getting treated for them now, with hospitals pushed to the limits because of COVID-19, probably wouldn’t be a ...
KINGWOOD — A search for naloxone led a Kingwood police officer to the Monongalia County Quick Response Team. “I was responding to overdose calls, and I would get to the scene before the ambulance. I didn’t have the equipment I needed to help the person,” Officer Gina McNemar ...
Three F’s and a D. No, it isn’t your kid’s report card from his first freshman semester after going off to college. It is, however, a societal grading, with lots of virology mixed in. And it’s the kind of assessment that Dr. Clay Marsh, the state COVID-19 czar and WVU ...
If you had the opportunity to learn the Heimlich maneuver to keep somebody from choking to death, you wouldn’t think twice, right? If you were trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), you’d most likely administer it to someone who has lost consciousness. And if you knew a way ...