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FAIRMONT, WV - Low labor force participation — the percentage of the population working or currently looking for work — is one of West Virginia’s long-standing economic impediments.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Vandalia Health’s Mon Health Medical Center is pleased to welcome Dr. Chris Cook, Cardiothoracic Surgeon, as Vandalia Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

MORGANTOWN, WV - West Virginia University President Gordon Gee delivered his final State of the University address Monday at the College of Law, recalling a productive past and providing an optimistic look to the future.

CHARLESTON, WV - October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and a Kanawha County medical facility is showcasing a lengthy project that has raised funds for those diagnosed with the disease.

MORGANTOWN, WV - As cannabidiol products — commonly known as CBD — become more readily available, researchers at West Virginia University are working to get a better understanding at how the substance affects people behind the wheel.

SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV - VU Medicine Thomas Hospitals will join members of the WVU Cancer Institute to announce the expansion of the Bonnie’s Bus mobile cancer screening program through the purchase of a new mobile mammography unit to serve southern West Virginia.

PHILIPPI, WV - With Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day taking place this past weekend, Broaddus Hospital spent Monday holding a Breast Cancer Education event which invited breast cancer survivors to come and make their voices heard and provide guidance.

HUNTINGTON, WV - West Virginia Amendment 1, the Prohibit "Medically-Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Mercy Killing" Measure, is on the ballot in West Virginia as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on Nov. 5, 2024.

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

MORGANTOWN, WV - David Watson, M.D., professor and chair of the WVU School of Medicine Department of Neurology, has been named signature vice chair of WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) clinical operations and System integration and medical director of RNI multidisciplinary programs.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The shortage of IV fluids continues to cause statewide health providers to make adjustments.

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

CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia officials are bracing for public reaction to cost increases for the state’s insurance that covers government workers.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health Wound Care has been providing hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy in Morgantown for over 20 years.

WHITE HALL, WV - Ace Hardware in White Hall is extending helping hands outside of the store by giving back to a local children’s hospital.

WHEELING, WV - WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital hosted its annual Community Baby Shower.

MORGANTOWN, WV - For more than 100 days, Julie Vincent and her husband, David, were guests of Rosenbaum Family House as their late daughter, Emily, battled a mysterious lung infection at nearby WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital.

BARBOURSVILLE, WV - PROACT will host the Third Annual Race Toward Recovery 5K run/walk on Saturday, Oct. 19, at Barboursville Park, starting at 8 a.m.

OAK HILL, WV - Precluding any last-second second thoughts or acrophobic misgivings, Kathy James is taking a precarious plunge in her native Fayette County in a few days — something that would have been unfathomable for her to do physically a mere year ago.

MORGANTOWN, WV - A groundbreaking study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health has validated the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) prediction rules for computed tomography (CT) imaging in children presenting with blunt abdominal or minor head trauma.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Eighty years ago, a group of area women gathered to form the Women’s Auxiliary to the Monongalia General Hospital, dedicated to supporting the mission and work of what was known as – and what many people still call – Mon General.

Point Pleasant, WV - Rivers Health, a member of Marshall Health Network, announced the opening of the Rivers Health Wound Center, a specialized outpatient wound care treatment center dedicated to the care of patients with wounds.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Good leaders have a way of envisioning future development, of seeing the potential and the pitfalls.

MORGANTOWN, WV - On October 9, 2024, Vandalia Health hospitals, including Mon Health and Davis Health, hosted a successful Healthcare Career Showcase aimed at introducing middle & high school students to the dynamic world of healthcare.

CHARLESTON, WV - The Catholic church in West Virginia is supporting a constitutional amendment that would ban physician-assisted death in the state.

HUNTINGTON, WV - October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and to raise awareness and promote education, professionals at Marshall Health Network held a breast cancer symposium Friday.

CHARLESTON, WV - Donor families and recipients learned that with every organ, tissue or cornea someone donates, they can save the life of eight people, at the annual CORE event Sunday.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Researchers at WVU Medicine and the WVU School of Medicine have identified high-resolution pulse oximetry (HRPO) as a feasible tool for detecting sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in acute stroke patients.

CHARLESTON, WV - As the United States health care industry continues to experience a shortage in IV fluid brought on by Hurricane Helene, West Virginia hospital systems have put in place their own plans to conserve the product used extensively across medical procedures, a representative of the state’s hospital association said.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine children’s neuroscience center the WVU Rockefeller neuroscience has appointed Dr. Lawrence Morton has the new chief of pediatric neurology.