MORGANTOWN — Mylan CEO Heather Bresch will retire with a comfortable golden parachute when the company completes its merger with Upjohn next year. According to a recent […]
Healthcare
WVU Medicine 1st multi-organ transplant center in West Virginia
WVU Medicine WVU Medicine received approval from the United Network for Organ Sharing to offer kidney transplants, making it West Virginia’s first and only fully functional multi-organ […]
WVU researchers studying how change in opioid laws impacts healthcare, drug crisis
WVU Today In 2017, West Virginia healthcare providers wrote 81.3 opioid prescriptions for every 100 state residents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The […]
WVU teams with Hearts of Gold to train service dogs for veterans
While serving in the U.S. Army, service members are joined by a “battle buddy” — a friend to watch out for them. For some local veterans, that […]
WVU Extension takes on pre-diabetes in kids
WVU Today Armed with data from a new study raising alarms about the health of children in the Mountain State, a West Virginia University Extension Service program […]
Hepatitis A confirmed in Morgantown
Monongalia County Health Department confirmed a case of hepatitis A in a food worker at Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen on Earl L. Core Road in Morgantown. “While the […]
WVU Doctor: Drug crisis is a ‘kind of cancer eating away a the fiber of society’
The drug crisis in West Virginia won’t be cured overnight, or with one or two elections. It will take several generations to reverse. That’s what Dr. Michael […]
Mon Health’s Auxiliary hosts gathering to recognize volunteers
Seventy-five years old, with a newborn. The man and woman with the little kid in the middle politely threaded through the proceedings at Mon Health Medical Center […]
Insulin caravan, passport deadline nears
Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer, D-Monongalia, held a press conference about a December bus caravan to Canada to purchase insulin at the Monongalia County Health Department Tuesday afternoon. […]
Nurse becomes Preston diabetic educator
KINGWOOD — Jennifer Nestor said she always had an interest in community wellness. Nestor, a registered nurse at Preston Memorial Hospital (PMH), recently replaced Meredith Sneddon as […]