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CHARLESTON, WV - Last week West Virginians sent a clear message: Don’t cut Medicaid.

PRINECTON, WV - April is National Donate Life Month, and WVU Medicine’s Princeton Community Hospital is using it as an opportunity to educate the public.

CHARLESTON, WV - As Congress moves closer to a budget deal, Senator Shelley Moore Capito has acknowledged the possibility of significant effects on Medicaid.

MARTINSBURG, WV - The annual WVU Medicine Children’s Eastern Panhandle Gala is set to take place today at the Holiday Inn in Martinsburg starting at 6 p.m.

CHARLESTON, WV - States increasingly struggling to cover the rising cost of popular GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound are searching for ways to get out from under the budgetary squeeze that took them by surprise.

CHARLESTON, WV - A respected rural health leader from West Virginia, Dr. Tracy Hendershot, has been nominated for a position on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).

MARTINSBURG, WV - Mark O’Hern, president and CEO of WVU Hospitals East, which includes WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center, WVU Medicine Jefferson Medical Center, and their affiliated clinics, announced the appointment of Jeannie Constable as vice president of marketing and communications.

CHARLESTON, WV - Pinwheels line the entrance to CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital in observance of National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Testicular cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men aged 15-45 nationwide, and WVU Medicine is encouraging monthly self-exams to help detect and treat the disease as early as possible.

FAIRMONT, WV - April is Donate Life month, and with the help of WVU Medicine, the Center for Organ Recovery and Education (CORE) is helping inform the public on the life-changing impacts an organ donation can make.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Subcommittee, issued the following statement after voting to confirm Dr. Mehmet Oz as Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS):

HUNTINGTON, WV - Hoop’s Family Children’s Hospital Child Advocacy Center (HFCH CAC) is proud to announce its selection as a recipient of the West Virginia First Foundation’s (WVFF) inaugural Opportunity Grant.

HUNTINGTON, WV - In recognition of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, the Marshall Health Network - Hoops Family Children’s Hospital Child Advocacy Center (HFCH CAC) held a special ceremony on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, to plant pinwheels in front of the hospital.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network’s Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center have been recognized among Castle Connolly’s 2025 Top Hospital Awards for excellence in key medical procedures.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - President and CEO of Mon Health and Davis Health Systems David Goldberg attended Wednesday’s Harrison County Commission meeting to publicly share plans regarding a new Mon Health hospital coming to Harrison County.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine is going the extra mile — or extra 100 miles — through the mountains in support of blood cancer patients and their families.

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

CHARLESTON, WV - A bill narrowly approved in the House of Delegates would allow the Legislature to write its own rules for disclosing public records.

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

BRIDGEPORT, WV - The Charles Pointe development in Bridgeport is a sprawling 1,700 acre property with commercial, residential and recreation developments and more may soon come.

BECKLEY, WV - Raleigh General Hospital administrators celebrated National Doctors’ Day on Monday, March 31, 2025, by offering a breakfast buffet and gifts to hospital physicians, according to RGH Marketing Coordinator Courtney White.

MORGANTOWN, WV - In July 2022, WVU Medicine President and CEO Albert Wright Jr., PharmD, told Becker’s he wanted to start an associate degree nursing program.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Program is celebrating a major milestone with the completion of its 5,000th TMS treatment.

CHARLESTON, WV - Delegates have hit pause on a bill that would affect West Virginia’s share of Medicaid spending.

WESTON, WV - Dr. Doyle R. Sickles will be honored at a retirement reception at Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital (SJMH) on Thursday, April 3 from 4 to 7 p.m.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network and the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine announce the appointment of Mary T. Legenza, M.D., FACS, as medical director of the Edwards Cancer Institute (ECI) and chair of oncology at the School of Medicine. In this leadership role, Legenza will oversee the strategic growth, clinical governance, research initiatives and community outreach efforts of both the ECI and the Department of Oncology.

BECKLEY, WV - Dr. David Blaine and Dr. Justin Douglas, Otolaryngologists at the Beckley ARH Hospital Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic, recently performed the hospital’s first two Inspire Therapy procedures, used to treat obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

PARKERSBURG, WV - National Epilepsy Awareness Day aims to educate people on Epilepsy and how it affects those who have it.

ROANOKE, WV - WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital and West Virginia Wesleyan College hosted a gala Friday evening at Stonewall Resort to raise money for both institutions.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - WVU Medicine United Hospital Center officials spent last year ramping up efforts to bring medical access to more communities around the state and enhance the services provided at their Bridgeport campus.