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BRIDGEPORT, WV - A Bridgeport automobile dealership and a nonprofit organization recently teamed up to help chemotherapy patients from being cold during their cancer treatments.

MORGANTOWN, WV - West Virginia University research illustrates that American Heart Association and American Stroke Association guidelines are effective at speeding up hospitals’ response times for stroke treatment and can be mastered even by members of “ad hoc” medical teams that assemble rapidly on the fly.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The Mon Health System – Vandalia Health North Board of Directors announces a change in board membership.

CHARLESTON, WV - House Finance Committee Chairman Vernon Criss says state lawmakers should consider a tax cut proposal by Gov. Jim Justice before a new administration takes over.

WESTON, WV - Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital made a donation to Braxton Healthy Families Health Children Coalition Community Baby Shower.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The West Virginia Wellness Festival will be held throughout the day Saturday at Mylan Park Community Center in Morgantown.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The Mon Health Medical Center Auxiliary announced its Giving Tree Fundraiser in honor of Christmas in July.

CHARLESTON, WV - Accompanied by mechanical assistance (and “assistants”), CAMC physicians and other staff members demonstrated some of the latest robotic technology during a recent special summit at the CAMC Memorial location in Charleston.

WASHINGTON, DC - Health insurance companies are concerned multimillion-dollar new gene therapies could break the $9.2 billion health insurance exchange risk-adjustment program.

CHARLESTON, WV - Today, the Dr. Emmanuel Bilirakis and Honorable Jennifer Wexton National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act, legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), was signed into law.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - West Virginia is set to receive at least $2.5 million for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program services across the state.

CHARLESTON, WV - Another major controversial issue will be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court after half of the states in the nation—including West Virginia—pass bills banning “gender-affirming care” for minors.

WASHINGTON D.C. - The Biden administration told emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman’s health, following last week’s Supreme Court ruling that failed to settle a legal dispute over whether state abortion bans override a federal law requiring hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment.

WASHINGTON D.C. - America’s Essential Hospitals recently welcomed the largest class in the 36-year history of its Fellows Program: 50 rising leaders from 27 essential hospitals, who will explore best practices in leadership, diversity and inclusion, policymaking, and other topics.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Summer vacation means plenty of family swim time at local pools. For most kids, it’s business as usual — splashing, cannonballs, and the like, but when Elizabeth Pauley heard the three whistles from the pool’s lifeguards, she knew something wasn’t right. A boy was being pulled out of the pool.

HUNTINGTON, WV - There were 9,700 emergency room visits and eight deaths reported nationwide in 2023 from firework-related injuries, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

WHEELING, WV - JUL 2, 2024 New Wheeling Mayor Dennis Magruder — who took office at noon Monday — got a strong advance start on his new job last week when he gathered with five of Wheeling’s former mayors — Jack Fahey (1975-79), Jack Lipphardt (1992-2000), Nick Sparachane (2000-08), Andy McKenzie (2008-16) and Glenn Elliott 2016-24) — to talk about where the city’s been and, most importantly, where it’s going.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The Mon Health Medical Center Auxiliary is accepting donations for their Christmas in July fundraiser.

MARTINSBURG, WV - Following water damage that happened in late May, WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center has announced it came out of surgical and trauma diversion and were able to reopen two of their operating rooms.

CHARLESTON, WV - In the 1990s when I started medical school, nobody warned me how my job was going to hurt me emotionally.

WASHINGTON D.C. - New chairs and other member leaders today begin their roles on boards that guide the work of America’s Essential Hospitals and its research, education, and leadership development arm, Essential Hospitals Institute.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Three West Virginia University supporters with successful careers in investments and executive management were elected to the WVU Foundation Board of Directors at its annual meeting.

HINTON, WV - Officials at Summers County ARH Hospital are excited to announce the return of a mobile MRI unit.

ELKINS, WV - Davis Health System is reminding the public to make sure their children are healthy and up to date on vaccinations before the 2024-25 school year begins in August.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - In this edition of the WVU Medicine Health Report, Dr. Nicholas Marchesani, chiropractor with WVU Medicine’s Center for Integrative Pain Management, talked about how to manage and treat lower back pain.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The Mon Health Medical Center Auxiliary is proud to announce its Giving Tree Fundraiser in honor of Christmas in July.

MADISON, WV - Boone Memorial Health is pleased to welcome Lisa Kelly, FNP-C to the BMH family.

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

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

WESTON, WV - Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital made a donation to Braxton Healthy Families Health Children Coalition Community Baby Shower.