MORGANTOWN – At least nine bills concerning compulsory vaccinations are in the legislative can this session. One in particular has raised concerns in the medical community and The Dominion Post spoke this past week with a leader at WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital about it. SB 535 ...
by Charles J. Mullett, Kathryn S. Moffett and Lisa M. Costello West Virginia has long led the nation in an important public health measure: school-age immunization rates. West Virginia has one of the most effective school immunization policies in the nation, resulting in high ...
Good: SB 489, establishing that “All county boards of education shall make feminine hygiene products, as defined in this section, available to female students, attending public school, in grades 3 through 12. The boards shall make the feminine hygiene products available at no cost and in a ...
Your lifetime risk of dying in a destructive storm is minimal: 1 in 35,074, according to the National Safety Council. You’re much more likely to die by drowning or fire, yet it’s still a long shot: 1 in 1,024 and 1 in 1,450, respectively. That’s a comforting reality, but we ...
WVU TODAY A steady increase in respiratory illnesses across the United States as winter approaches is leading health experts at West Virginia University and elsewhere to warn of a possible “tridemic,” widespread occurrences of influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus or ...
It’s becoming clearer that, even in the unlikely event that we somehow, someday manage to eradicate COVID-19 and its many variants, we can’t wipe clean the enormous toll the virus has taken. This is not just because of the incalculable loss of those who’ve died, but the struggles of ...