NewsScan

CHARLESTON, WV - The House Health Committee changed a hot-button bill on school vaccination requirements to focus on exemptions for medical reasons.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) Stroke Program at WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center recently achieved a major milestone with the successful completion of the hospital’s first aspiration thrombectomy procedures.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine has appointed Leslie K. Lawson, M.B.A., F.A.C.H.E., as the new president of WVU Medicine Summersville Regional Medical Center and WVU Medicine Braxton County Memorial Hospital, effective May 1.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Cancer Institute invites supporters to join the festivities April 25-27 as the Spring Gala celebrates 40 years of advancing cancer care, research, and outreach in West Virginia. 

MORGANTOWN, WV - Bonnie’s Bus mobile mammography unit will visit Hancock, Brooke, Harrison, and Monongalia counties offering three-dimensional (3D) digital screening mammograms and breast care education to women.

CHARLESTON, WV - “This is probably the most important bill that we will vote on in our entire careers here,” Republican Sen. Laura Wakim Chapman said a couple of weeks ago before the state Senate passed a bill 31-2.

MORGANTOWN, WV - LUCAS, a first of its kind, state-of-the-art mobile lung cancer screening unit, will visit Mercer, Greenbrier, and Nicholas counties offering low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans.

CHARLESTON, WV - If “religious freedom” is a selling point of a bill and religious leaders around the state want nothing to do with it, it’s probably bad legislation.

HUNTINGTON, WV - The measles outbreak that began in Texas is now up to 228 cases in two states, 23 hospitalizations, and one dead child, and still health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is hedging on the obvious, which is to get vaccinated.

PARKERSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center will be hosting their ‘Dinner with the Docs’ event next Monday, March 24 at 6 p.m.

MARTINS FERRY, WV - Back in August of 2019, we all learned that Alecto Healthcare Services planned to close its two local hospitals –Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling and East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry — within two to three months.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Health care systems around the country are still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the new president and CEO of Marshall Health Network identified that as one of the many challenges hospitals are facing.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Mental health care encompasses a wide variety of services and treatments to promote and maintain psychological well-being.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Vandalia Health Mon Medical Center registered nurse Kyle Dean has received a DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.

CHARLESTON, WV - Jessica Carter remembers the moment she discovered she had breast cancer.

BLUEFIELD, WV - The Behavioral Health Pavilion of the Virginias is celebrating a significant birthday, marking a decade and a half of service to its community and more improvements to come.

CHARLESTON, WV - Governor Patrick Morrisey faces perhaps the first major political test of his term, centered on a classic policy debate: the government’s interest in ensuring public health versus individual consumer choice.

MORGANTOWN, WV - When Mary Supcoe was forced to give up quilting, it was perhaps the most frustrating time of her life.

CHARLESTON, WV - Medicaid, health insurance program for a half-million West Virginians, is up against uncertainty.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Erin Atkins, C.Ph.T., C.S.P.T., lead pediatric pharmacy technician in the WVU Medicine Children’s Inpatient Pharmacy, is one of two recipients of the 2025 American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Board of Directors’ Pharmacy Technician Excellence Award.

ELKINS, WV - Davis & Elkins College has partnered with Vandalia Health Davis Medical Center to provide a scholarship for current employees and families to attend D&E.

MORGANTOWN, WV - For nearly 30 years it was the nerve center of Monongalia County’s emergency response system.

CHARLESTON, WV - Recently, I testified before the West Virginia House Committee on Health and Human Resources about Senate Bill 460 which would weaken our childhood immunization laws for child care and school entry.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Vandalia Health convened its annual Leadership Summits this week in Charleston and Weston, bringing together 400 leaders and board members from across the system’s northern and southern regions.

CHARLESTON, WV - A bill that would ban a list of food dyes and preservatives is headed back to the state Senate following a change made in the House of Delegates on Thursday.

MORGANTOWN, WV - With West Virginia’s increasing aging population and its standing as a top five state when it comes to the size of its elderly population, a new first-of-its-kind clinic is opening in Morgantown.

CHARLESTON, WV - Rural healthcare is crucial to West Virginia and one healthcare provider is advocating for bills to help improve the state’s hospital system.

HUNTINGTON, WV - March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, an annual reminder that spotlights one of the most common yet preventable cancers affecting millions worldwide.

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Department of Health has issued a notice that some West Virginia residents may have been exposed to measles at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, near Washington D.C.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network-St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC) has been awarded the HeartCARE Center National Distinction of Excellence from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Accreditation Services.