MORGANTOWN – Researchers at WVU’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute are part of a team exploring cutting-edge technology to help people with neurological injuries and disabilities function and communicate. […]
Healthcare
MCHD will provide blood panels, adult vaccines, more at health fair
Monongalia County Health Department will participate in Woodland United Methodist Church’s Community Health Fair, which will take place at the church on Mileground Road from 8 a.m. […]
Mon Commission meets county’s next health officer, approves MCHD fee increase
MORGANTOWN — There were concerns, Dr. Lee Smith admitted Wednesday to the Monongalia County Commission. As the county health officer, he’d spent a decade building the Monongalia […]
Moodr Health, WV Junior College partner to pioneer mental health support for nurses in training
MORGANTOWN — Local medtech startup Moodr Health and West Virginia Junior College have partnered to launch a pilot program to offer nurses in training much-needed mental health […]
Mon Health System hosts 49th Annual Service Awards
The 49th Annual Mon Health System and Mon Health Medical Center Service Awards was held to honor employees on April 11. “Service awards dinners are not just […]
WVU Medicine named to Becker’s Top 150 healthcare places to work; recognized for promoting employee wellbeing, satisfaction
MORGANTOWN — WVU Medicine has been named one of the 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare by Becker’s Healthcare for 2024. WVUM noted in its announcement […]
KAMP Ambulance shares heating woes with commission
KINGWOOD — A discussion about a training facility for fire departments and an emergency funding request by KAMP Ambulance for its south station were the two main […]
Fish fry continues to support cancer survivors
Started a dozen years ago, the annual Bob Huggins Fish Fry continues to raise money to support cancer services as well as the Remember the Miners Scholars […]
State’s first naxolone vending machine relocated to Wise Path
West Virginia Sober Living (WVSL), in collaboration with Monongalia CountyHealth Department’s Quick Response Team (QRT) and Wise Path Recovery Center, has relocated the state’s only naloxone (commonly […]
Obesity linked to long COVID — West Virginia leads the U.S. in both
MORGANTOWN — In West Virginia, 10.6% of the respondents questioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported suffering symptoms of long COVID, also known as […]
