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MORGANTOWN, WV - Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most deadly cancers in the U.S., but it’s also highly preventable.

FAIRMONT, WV - WVU Medicine Fairmont Medical Center, in partnership with the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute, offers access to highly trained specialists and cutting-edge technology, ensuring patients receive the highest quality cardiac care close to home.

BUCKHANNON, WV - Applications for St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary Scholarships are now available for the fall academic year.

CHARLESTON, WV - State officials are currently negotiating with the federal government regarding more than $460 million distributed to counties during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the chair of the House of Delegates Committee on Finance.

PARSONS, WV - Parsons, West Virginia has a new ambulance at Tucker County's EMS Station 1.

CHARLESTON, WV - A bill that would make it illegal for an adult to smoke in a car where kids are passenger remains alive in the final week of the legislative session.

CHARLESTON, WV - A bill to further limit the resources syringe service programs are able to distribute to people who use drugs is on its way to the governor’s desk after passing the Senate on Monday.

WEBSTER SRPINGS, WV - Webster County is providing financial support for emergency services.

CHARLESTON, WV - On this episode of The Legislature Today, we’ve begun the final week of the 60-day West Virginia Legislative session, and everything wraps up Saturday at midnight.

HUNTINGTON, WV - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $14,684,327 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for St. Mary’s Medical Center in Huntington, West Virginia.

CHARLESTON, WV - Members of the House Finance Committee narrowly advanced a bill that will reduce the amount of checks to unemployed people over time while also increasing the amount paid by employers into the state’s unemployment trust fund.

BLUEFIELD, WV - Southwest Virginia Community College has had a registered nursing program for many years, but now, with a documented national nursing shortage across the country, that program is expanding, looking to breathe new life into two of their other locations: Grundy and Bluefield, Virginia.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Leeann Kaminsky. Senior Vice President and CHRO at WVU Medicine (Morgantown. W. Va.). As CHRO, Ms. Kaminsky manages human resources functions across 23 hospitals for more than 30,000 employees.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Heart and Vascular Institute physicians are the first in the state and region to perform pulsed field ablation (PFA), a new minimally invasive technique to address atrial fibrillation (AFib) using the Medtronic PulseSelect™ PFA system.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Every year West Virginians are screened for various types of cancers but now they will have the opportunity to be screened for more than 50 types.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - Kate Jones of Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital joined First at 4 on Friday.

WHEELING, WV - Emergency medicine is a high-stakes, high-intensity field in which seconds can be crucial to a patient’s outcome.

HUNTINGTON, WV - There is 1 in 1,461 or .068% chance of being born on Leap Day, which comes once every four years.

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

MORGANTOWN, WV - A victorious Neal Brown was covered in Duke’s mayo from head to toe in North Carolina in December.

CHARLESTON, WV - A bill from this year’s regular legislative session is ready to be signed into law in an effort to address hospital staffing shortages, according to officials.

CHARLESTON, WV - It remains to be seen if the state Senate will agree with the House of Delegates and approve a bill that would change certain requirements when it comes to getting children vaccinated.

MORGANTOWN, WV - If there is one thing I know, both as a pediatrician and mother of a toddler, it’s that we West Virginians love our children fiercely.

CHARLESTON, WV - New school vaccine rules are making their way through the West Virginia legislature, but one Ohio County delegate says the bill’s path to passage could also be one that leads to future outbreaks.

SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV - On Feb. 14, two Shepherdstown residents drove to Capitol Hill to join over 200 people from 22 states and Washington, D.C., in participation with the Alliance for Childhood Cancer’s Action Days 2024.

CHARLESTON, WV - Members of the House of Delegates Finance Committee on Friday asked West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency officials about upcoming premium increases to determine if a pay raise proposal making its way through the Legislature will be enough to offset the premium hikes.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - Respiratory viruses are on the rise nationwide, and they have been since November.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Every year, thousands of West Virginians undergo screenings for lung, breast, cervical, colon, and prostate cancers.

PRINCETON, WV - WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital raised awareness Friday, March 1, 2024 on colorectal cancer.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Cabell Huntington Hospital (CHH), St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC) and Rivers Health (RH), members of Marshall Health Network, will provide the following events and screenings for the community in March.