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04/22/2024 - Mon Health
MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health Medical Center celebrates National Volunteer Week and honors its volunteers with a week of celebration.
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04/22/2024 - Mon Health
KINGWOOD, WV - Mon Health Preston Memorial Hospital is now offering PROVENGE, an immunotherapy for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).
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04/22/2024 - ARH
BECKLEY, WV - Melanie Overton was 23 when she walked across the stage at Bluefield State College to receive her associate’s degree in nursing.
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04/22/2024 - The Intelligencer by: Emma Delk
WHEELING, WV - The sound of ambulance sirens heading towards the Ohio Valley Medical Center always drew twins Jo Ellen Teufel and Judy Nesbitt out of their childhood Center Wheeling home to see what was happening.
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04/22/2024 - The Dominion Post
MORGANTOWN, WV - Science is a team sport, and a group of West Virginia University researchers with differingexpertise and approaches are joining forces to seek a drug for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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04/22/2024 - The Journal by: Ainsley Hall
MARTINSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center partnered with Martinsburg High School and local emergency agencies to perform a mock accident on Friday as a part of Prom Promise.
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04/22/2024 - WTOV by: Gianna Dapra
OHIO COUNTY, WV - Woodsdale Elementary School hosted its annual mental health fair, collaborating with local universities and organizations.
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04/22/2024 - The Parkersburg News & Sentinel by: Dr. Stephan Hanna, M.D.
PARKERSBURG, WV - In the past several years, the advancement of marijuana for medical use and its legalization have been promoted in our country, quite often with scant medical data to justify those actions.
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04/19/2024 - WVNews
CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia's IDD Waiver program, aiding people with disabilities to live independently, faced scrutiny from lawmakers due to a $10 million budget cut.
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04/19/2024 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine will be building new facilities in Morgantown and Elkins while expanding services in Fairmont, Bluefield and Princeton with nearly $400 million in investments.
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04/19/2024 - WTRF by: Josh DeLong
MARSHALL COUNTY, WV - It was a big day in Moundsville as the ribbon was officially cut for the new facility focused on the Renner Behavioral Health Program, in partnership with the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.
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04/19/2024 - WBOY by: Sam Kirk
ELKINS, WV - WVU Medicine is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into facilities in five cities in West Virginia.
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04/19/2024 - The Inter-Mountain by: Brad Johnson
ELKINS, WV - The CEO of WVU Medicine United Hospital Center said construction on the company’s planned $37 million facility in Elkins should begin in June, and officials hope for an opening before the end of 2025.
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04/19/2024 - WDTV
BRIDGEPORT, WV - WVU Medicine Children’s recently became the first hospital in the state to administer a dose of ELEVIDYS.
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04/19/2024 - WVNS by: Ashley Davidson
PRINCETON, WV - Bluefield University was one of several schools with nursing programs whose graduates go to work at WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital.
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04/19/2024 - The Inter-Mountain
MORGANTOWN, WV - Science is a team sport, and a group of West Virginia University researchers with differing expertise and approaches are joining forces to seek a drug for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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04/19/2024 - My Buckhannon
MORGANTOWN, WV - After Shirley Weaver battled breast cancer in 1980, she and her husband, George Weaver Jr., established an endowment in her name to support research at the WVU Cancer Institute.
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04/18/2024 - MetroNews by: Brad McElhinny
CHARLESTON, WV - State officials acknowledged this week that in recent years West Virginia spent millions of dollars less than was allocated for waiver programs meant to support people with disabilities, instead shifting dollars to expenses like covid-19 testing or contract nursing.
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04/18/2024 - West Virginia Watch by: Lori Kersey
CHARLESTON, WV - Over the past year, as the programs returned to pre-pandemic eligibility rules, more than 200,000 West Virginians were removed from the Medicaid or the Child Health Insurance Program, state data shows.
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04/18/2024 - WTRF by: D.K. Wright
WHEELING, WV - WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital received a gift today from the hospital auxiliary.
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04/18/2024 - WTRF by: Mary Flavin
GLEN DALE, WV - Saturday night, WVU Medicine announced a formal partnership with A Special Wish Ohio Valley during their annual gala.
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04/18/2024 - The Dominion Post by: David Beard
MORGANTOWN, WV - Local medtech startup Moodr Health and West Virginia Junior College have partnered to launch a pilot program to offer nurses in training much-needed mental health support.
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04/18/2024 - The Inter-Mountain
PHILIPPI, WV - The Broaddus Hospital Wound Care program recently received Restorix Health’s Excellence in Clinical Distinction and Patient Satisfaction Award.
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04/18/2024 - My Buckhannon
BUCKHANNON, WV - WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary is giving out two $1,000 scholarships for students entering the medical field.
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04/18/2024 - The Herald-Dispatch
TEAYS VALLEY, WV - A new, state-of-the-art camera installed at CAMC Teays Valley Hospital is expected to help doctors make better decisions for patients.
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04/18/2024 - CAMC
CHARLESTON, WV - The CAMC robotics program has been growing since the first robot was installed in 2007.
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04/18/2024 - Times West Virginian by: Esteban Fernandez
FAIRMONT, WV - Lined up at the entrance to the West Fairmont Middle School gymnasium, cheerleaders shook their blue and red pom poms to welcome Opera, a Chocolate Labrador Retriever.
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04/17/2024 - WV Public Broadcasting by: Randy Yohe
CHARLESTON, WV - Just three years ago, EMS provider numbers across the state were down a third.
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04/17/2024 - MedPage Today by: Cheryl Clark
CHARLESTON, WV - Tom Takubo, DO, an osteopathic physician and pulmonary critical care specialist, is exasperated and crestfallen.
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04/17/2024 - WVNews
CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia is set to get $1 billion from lawsuits related to opioids.
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