BY MIKE NOLTING A new option will be available this fall for Medicare-eligible West Virginians through the insurer Peak Health. The company launched in 2021 offering coverage to 32,000 WVU Medicine employees and families and is now ready to enter the consumer market. Peak Health is ...
A lawsuit filed in Monongalia County Circuit Court alleges doctors and medical staff at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital did not provide an appropriate level of care during a 2021 spinal surgery. According to court documents, David D. Gentry suffered severe skin-tear injuries to his ...
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito announced this week federal grants to support eight projects at WVU Hospitals, including WVU Medicine Children’s, WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, and an award for the WVU Health Sciences Center. Capito is ranking member of the Senate ...
On a late summer day, Ralynn Thomas rests in her room at WVU Medicine Children’s when she receives a visit from Michelle Kline, a breastfeeding counselor at Monongalia County Health Department’s WIC office. The new mother had already signed up for WIC, the acronym for the federal ...
While most WVU home football games bring a surge of visitors to Morgantown, when WVU’s favorite foe - the Pitt Panthers - come to town, the potential for people to have too much of a good time surges as well. During every home football game, medical personnel are set up at first aid ...
Last year, a season of increased Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) cases in infants concerned medical experts across the country. Following research by West Virginia University doctors, nurses, and pharmacists, Beyfortus, a new drug preventing severe RSV in vulnerable babies, has received ...