Mon Health Cancer Center is recognizing May as Skin Cancer Awareness Month and sharing the fast facts to detect and prevent skin cancer. As the weather begins […]
Tag: prevention
The bee is back: County spelling bee (in abbreviated form) will be Jan. 5
MORGANTOWN — Lockdown. L-O-C-K-D-O-W-N, lockdown. Which is what won’t be happening next month for the annual Monongalia County Schools Spelling Bee. After COVID-19 derailed it last year, […]
Game Changer luncheon: Prevention critical to curbing the drug crisis
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS — Educators, prevention and treatment specialists, health care providers and more gathered for an educational lunch Thursday at The Greenbrier for the Game Changer […]
West Virginia’s 1-800-GAMBLER program turns 20 years old
Newsroom@DominionPost.com This month, the Problem Gamblers Help Network of West Virginia, which operates the 800-GAMBLER helpline, is marking 20 years of service. Twenty years ago, before legalizing […]
Dormitory visitation will be restricted
Administration hopes all faculty, even those not on campus, will do wellness checks In the final campus wide conversation before the fall semester starts, senior West Virginia […]
Brighten Your Smile
Dentist offices provide free dental care for kids Newsroom@DominionPost.com Plenty of children throughout the area came away with brighter smiles Wednesday, when Wilson Martino Dental, TLC Dental […]
Tips for helping contact tracers
A lot has happened since the last health department column appeared in these pages two weeks ago. Then, it was reported that the number of positive COVID-19 […]
Be wary of tick borne illnesses
Lyme, Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever and others are possible KINGWOOD — In 2018, Preston County Health Officer Dr. Fred Conley warned that Lyme disease was on […]
State sets up hotline on virus
Still no confirmed cases found in West Virginia Even though there are no reported cases of COVID-19 in the Mountain State, Gov. Jim Justice and the state […]
