MORGANOTWN — A Harvard University professor has criticized West Virginia’s color-coded COVID map while the U.S. CDC has copied it. The two bits of news on Friday, […]
Healthcare
Mon Health holds a ribbon cutting for new physicians building in Fairmont
Mon Health Primary Care, Cardiology is expanding its footprint in Marion County with a ribbon cutting of its new location in the Fairmont Technology Park. “The residents […]
Game Changer youth substance abuse program to hold Monday virtual summit for W.Va. students
MORGANTOWN — Game Changer, the statewide substance misuse prevention program for high schoolers, is going national. Its first virtual Opioid Awareness and Substance Misuse Summit air live […]
Officials say data shows WVU COVID-19 cases haven’t resulted in community spike
MORGANTOWN — The numbers don’t lie. And the numbers support the change in how isolated WVU students are being weighed against Monongalia County’s overall COVID-19 statistics. That […]
COVID-positive WVU students isolated at Arnold Apartments will count as 1 case for Mon County’s map status
MORGANTOWN — WVU students isolated in Arnold Apartments for COVID-19 will be counted as a single COVID case. The was the bottom line of lengthy discussion offered […]
COVID maps get new gold color and additional parameter; news on counting WVU infections expected Wednesday
MORGANTOWN — The color-coded County Alert System and School Alert System maps has a fifth color effective Tuesday: gold. Gov. Jim Justice introduced his idea to have […]
Mylan, Upjohn receive international OKs for merger into Viatris
MORGANTOWN — Mylan and Pfizer have received final approval from the European Commission for the proposed combination of Mylan and Pfizer’s Upjohn business in Viatris, the companies […]
Justice proposes new gold color in county map, rethinking how WVU factors into Mon County COVID numbers
MORGANTOWN — A fifth color in the school re-entry map and a different way to factor WVU into Monongalia County were to among the topics of a […]
EMS merger is a ‘work in progress’
Forest Weyen has had a busy year. Hired in October 2019 as the executive director of a newly reformed Mon EMS — a merger of Mon EMS […]
Doctors lead effort to raise funds for food bank
WVU Today More and more West Virginians, financially burdened by the COVID-19 pandemic, are turning to food banks to put meals on their tables — and one […]