NewsScan

CHARLESTON, WV - On a hazy summer afternoon, a silver pickup truck rolled into a parking lot filled with pop-up tents in Charleston’s Kanawha City.

CHARLESTON, WV - A delegation of West Virginia lawmakers and state leaders recently returned from a trip to Seattle, Washington, where they engaged in conversations with several mega corporations, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Boeing.

WASHINGTON D.C. - The FDA has converted a treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease to traditional approval.

WHEELING, WV - Officials in the city of Wheeling are ready to get the ball rolling — the wrecking ball, that is — on action that will lead to the demolition of the buildings that remain standing on the former Ohio Valley Medical Center Campus.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - Jenkins Subaru in Bridgeport has partnered with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to bring warmth to cancer survivors being treated at the Cecil B. Highland Jr., & Barbara B. Highland Cancer Center at United Hospital Center (UHC).

HUNTINGTON, WV - Five pediatric cancer patients at Hoops Family Children’s Hospital at Cabell Huntington Hospital have received scholarships through the 2023 Jonathan A. Ferguson and Dr. Cheryl L. Cook Scholarship awards program.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Lily’s Place in Huntington recently hired a new medical director, Dr. Melin Moses.

MARTINSBURG, WV - Two WVU Medicine hospitals in the Eastern Panhandle now offer robotic-assisted total hip and knee replacement with the new Zimmer Biomet ROSA® robotic surgical assistant.

CHARLESTON, WV - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is appropriating $481,719 for Lily’s Place in Huntington to support its efforts to treat and prevent neonatal abstinence syndrome and promote healthy families.

GLEN DALE, WV - It’s a way to honor Ohio Valley’s veterans, and it continues to spread across the area.

MORGANTOWN, WV - A partnership formed by the WVU Cancer Institute and Child & Family Advocacy Law Clinic aims to decrease barriers to legal care for patients living with cancer by providing them free, high-quality legal counsel and representation.

WASHINGTON, DC - The Food and Drug Administration has fully approved the first drug shown to slow down Alzheimer's disease.

CHARLESTON, WV - A physician with decades of experience working in emergency rooms in the southern West Virginia coalfields was on Wednesday named the first board director of a nonprofit tasked with distributing much of the state’s over $1 billion in opioid settlement money.

SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV - Shepherd University’s School of Nursing has received a $2.6 million, four-year rural health advanced practice grant designed to increase the number of primary care family nurse and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners in the region.

BECKLEY, WV - A physician with decades of experience working in emergency rooms in the southern West Virginia coalfields was on Wednesday named the first board director of a nonprofit tasked with distributing much of the state’s over $1 billion in opioid settlement money.

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources reports that as of July 5, there have been no deaths reported since last week’s online dashboard update, with a total of 8,156 deaths in the state attributed to COVID-19.

CHARLESTON, WV - August will mark one year since Gov. Jim Justice declared a state of emergency because of severe staffing vacancies in West Virginia’s prisons and jails.

CHARLESTON, WV - The Public Employees Insurance Agency is getting a new executive director.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Grant Memorial Hospital (GMH) in Petersburg officially became a full member of the West Virginia University Health System effective July 1.

WASHINGTON, DC - The number of people dying in the U.S. from pregnancy-related causes has more than doubled in the last 20 years, according to a new study, published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

HUNTINGTON, WV - The public is offered reduced wellness lab screenings in July by Mountain Health Network.

WASHINGTON, DC - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that almost 1 out of 4 people in the U.S. still hadn’t been exposed to COVID-19 by the end of 2022 after nearly three years of the pandemic.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine along with many hospitals and cancer centers across the country are dealing with shortages for generic cancer drugs.

WESTON, WV - Despite rulings against an estimated $55 million Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital facility near the I-79 Weston exit, the project will go forward due to recent changes in state laws governing the Certificate of Need process, according to Vandalia Health Network Executive Vice President David Goldberg.

CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia’s cumulative revenue collections for Fiscal Year 2023 will come in at $1.8 billion over estimate, according to a press release from Gov. Jim Justice.

FAIRMONT, WV - Employees at WVU Medicine had the opportunity to take a break and celebrate their successes over the past 3 years at a circus-themed picnic.

WASHINGTON, DC - Experts are warning of a dramatic rise in diabetes cases around the world.

CHARLESTON, WV - Dr. Jeff Coben will step down from his role as interim secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources next Wednesday, according to information from Gov. Jim Justice.

CLARKSBURG, WV - Air quality has dropped in West Virginia once again as a result of smoke being carried down from the ongoing forest fires in Ontario and Quebec.

CHARLESTON, WV - Dr. Rayan Ihle with CAMC General Hospital recommends people be cautious as air quality conditions worsen across our region, the East Coast and the Midwest.