WVU MEDICINE A team of researchers led by Dr. Vinay Badhwar, professor and executive chair of the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute, and including Dr. J. Hunter Mehaffey, assistant professor in the WVU Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, and other cardiology and cardiac ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s full House of Delegates will consider legislation that would ban physicians from providing gender-affirming surgery to minors. The original version of House Bill 2007, “Prohibiting certain medical practices,” focused on irreversible gender-affirming ...
MON HEALTH SYSTEM Intermed Labs at Mon Health has been awarded the Top Innovator of 2022 for its Fingy3D device during The Tank: Plastic Surgery Innovation Challenge hosted by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the world’s largest organization of board-certified plastic ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Surgeons at WVU Medicine performed the state’s first liver explant for tumor resection and liver autotransplant — a rare procedure that requires a multi-disciplinary team of heart and liver transplant surgeons to care for one patient. The procedure ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com More than 107,000 people are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant in the United States, including 500 West Virginians. But only 30% of West Virginians are registered organ donors. To educate West Virginians about this critical need in their own ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Morgantown-based MedTech startup studio, Intermed Labs at Mon Health, announced the completion of a pilot clinical trial at Stanford University of its hand surgery simulator. The study, approved by the Mon Health Medical Center Institutional Review ...